Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced .
2 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
3 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
4 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
5 She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed .
6 ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier .
7 Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas .
8 Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea .
9 A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other .
10 By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times .
11 Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture .
12 Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture .
13 Few stations south of Thirsk had much to offer until Richard discovered Biggleswade on a visit to his sister 's home .
14 Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them .
15 The Scottish Nationalists are also considering a programme of civil disobedience in protest at a fourth term of rule by a party with few seats north of the border .
16 If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier .
17 He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut .
18 It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year .
19 I think I 'd been Yes a few weeks couple of three weeks perhaps in the slate yard behind there , they used to make slates for schools there .
20 Only the tower of this church remains , a few yards west of which can be found Cook Senior 's last resting place , marked curiously by a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea .
21 Just a few yards north of the inn is a farm that serves teas in the summer .
22 Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium .
23 The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator .
24 Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town .
25 The delightfully named village of Chigny-les-Roses is situated south of Reims , on the northern slopes of the Montagne , a few kilometres west of the grand cru villages of Mailly-Champagne and Verzenay .
26 Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade .
27 Last June saw the opening of a new museum in Ingolstadt , a few kilometres north of Munich , devoted to concrete art the art of geometric form and pure colour espoused in the 1930s by artists such as Arp , Kupka , Vantongerloo and van Doesburg .
28 The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly .
29 Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets .
30 Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls .
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