Example sentences of "and a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 2 | The weeks passed and Sarah and Maggie took in washing to pay the rent , but there was never enough money left to buy more than bread and a few vegetables . |
| 3 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 4 | Some fun and a few games were certainly unavoidable ( there are colleagues who always go too far ) , but that was not the point of the Party 's annual seaside jamboree . |
| 5 | They saw a warm , comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table . |
| 6 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 7 | Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays . |
| 8 | Next , myself , a little shaken and a few scratches , and lastly Sgt. Storrie , who seemed okay . |
| 9 | And a few lines later we read : ‘ A master who turns out his ass or his dog because the animal can no longer earn its keep manifests a small mind ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
| 10 | and a few lines later : ‘ It does not follow that she would not have signed the charge if those representations had not been made . ’ |
| 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 | The archaeological evidence for this hunting activity over very long periods , from 12,000 to 4000 BC , consists of flint implements and a few bone objects from both open settlement sites and caves . |
| 13 | The town seemed deserted until a postman appeared and willingly explained that the only Germans there were Gestapo and a few businessmen . |
| 14 | By dawn , some patchy drizzle seems likely over eastern England and a few showers over both the south east and south west . |
| 15 | The philosophy and system of pastoral care were spelt out at some length and a few pages were devoted to the issue of pupils ' individual needs . |
| 16 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 17 | ‘ When I went to Grimsby , in the war , there was just me and a few students — invalided servicemen , some nice girlies just out of school — things were lovely . |
| 18 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 19 | Shortly before the threshold and a few feet above the ground he heard a loud bang accompanied by a violent nose-up motion . |
| 20 | The Jimmy Young Show 's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public . |
| 21 | This work was based on a sample survey of over 10,000 men , and a few questions were asked about practical support between kin . |
| 22 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 23 | We have , erm , one more paragraph and a few questions to discuss and time , what is it , it 's about ten past now , is it , according to your |
| 24 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 25 | It is a common fault , particularly in criminal law , to give the impression that the answer is based wholly upon common sense and a few gleanings from the Sunday newspapers . |
| 26 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 27 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 28 | We returned with various shell fish , Beadlet Anemones and a few Shannies ( a common rock pool fish ) . |
| 29 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 30 | The window I am sitting beside overlooks the back garden , where there is a perpetually erected bonfire , old cuttings , window sashes and a few wardrobe doors . |