Example sentences of "of a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 32 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 33 | Robbins 's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right , and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values , freedom and the family . |
| 34 | In any one year Jacqueline 's work may involve the preparation of a show , several commissions , the writing of a few articles , and organisation of the Summer School . |
| 35 | You are talking of a few pennies ’ pittance added to my weekly wage . |
| 36 | On the whole they are not , but the seasonal productivity of a few areas is very high , and subpolar seas include some of the richest patches of ocean known anywhere in the world . |
| 37 | Adjust by fractionally increasing size of a few spaces . |
| 38 | From sex to business talk in the space of a few sentences , she reflected fiercely , as he disappeared . |
| 39 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 40 | I knew the paths well and it was a journey of a few kilometres as the crow flies or , as they say in Italy , a volo d'uccello . |
| 41 | If he decides to ring us we 'll be short of a few answers . ’ |
| 42 | WIRRAL Housing Department scooped a major public relations windfall last night all for the cost of a few sticks of rock . |
| 43 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 44 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 45 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 46 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 47 | Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free-and-easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever-increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . |
| 48 | They mentioned the names of a few judges who they did not think highly of . |
| 49 | The metaphor used in ‘ the heavy page/of death , printed by gravestones in the cemetery ’ , works with the ‘ black statement ’ of a few lines previous suggesting that death is like a book which can survive through generations and is read , that is experienced , by all . |
| 50 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 51 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 52 | The polygenic nature of ageing contains a baleful message for gerontologists ; it is most unlikely that engineering of a few genes or intervention in a handful of physiological pathways will prevent the process from occurring . |
| 53 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 54 | Then came a slight breeze , that grew and went in the space of a few heartbeats . |
| 55 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 56 | The differences between electron energy levels in atoms are typically in the region of a few electron-volts , which corresponds to the energy of photons of light in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 57 | Shortly thereafter , it was discovered that these supposedly indivisible atoms are made up of electrons revolving about a nucleus with energies of the order of a few electron-volts . |
| 58 | No I 'm not : first I 'm going to wander round Bristol and try and get myself a job , then I 'm going to persuade the manager to give me an advance of a few pounds so I can get myself something to eat and find somewhere to stay . |
| 59 | You could be putting your life , or at least your health , at risk for the sake of a few pounds . |
| 60 | She knew of a woman in Dublin who , for the theft of a few pounds , had gone to prison for five years . |