Example sentences of "few [noun pl] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slid open a fitted wardrobe to their left to reveal a few suits and pairs of trousers hanging from a rail . |
| 2 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 3 | Erm , he worked , he was their sort of erm they had a few clubs and pubs in this area at the time and er |
| 4 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 5 | At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan . |
| 6 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 7 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 8 | The high school environment , it would seem , is one with few peaks and troughs , undemanding and emotionally flat . |
| 9 | THE PATTERN OF PARLIAMENTARY ENCLOSURE IN NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE This ‘ open ’ pattern of compact villages and few roads and lanes should be compared with Fig. 7 , which shows the ‘ close ’ pattern of early medieval colonisation on the heavy London Clays of south-east Hertfordshire . |
| 10 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 11 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 12 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 13 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |
| 14 | WATCH receptionist/telephonist Ann Sheppard at work for a few minutes and productivity levels take on a whole new dimension . |
| 15 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 16 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |
| 17 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
| 18 | Dawn can be hectic during lambing ; the warmth of the day helps the new-born lamb survive its first few hours and staff work round the clock in case something goes wrong . |
| 19 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 20 | Er I would suspect that very few branches and departments have used anything like this . |
| 21 | A few day-trippers and walkers had stopped by , but almost no locals at all . |
| 22 | There are a few shells and worms that have left behind a tracery of trails in what was the muddy sea floor . |
| 23 | Some pieces of carved driftwood , a few shells and stones are carefully arranged on the hearth and windowsills , adding an individual touch . |
| 24 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 25 | His jaws have been wrenched open , like everyone else 's , and the tranquillizers crammed in — a Siamese cat , a few books and records , an eighteen-year-old girl with wild hair and intent lips slightly parted … |
| 26 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 27 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 28 | There 's a few scowls and grimaces . |
| 29 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 30 | You need as few words and symbols on your page as possible . |