Example sentences of "and a few [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of those collected on the continent are well represented in temperate southern latitudes ; some are cosmopolitan , and a few ecologically prominent species are bipolar ( Longton 1985 ) . |
| 2 | The wood was added to the aquarium and a few strategically placed plastic plants were added with a few well-rounded , safe , large pebbles . |
| 3 | The situation was saved by Sellotape , safety-pins and a few strategically placed orchids . |
| 4 | Even with the extra land involved , which I seem to remember used to be a near derelict gravel soccer pitch and a few barely used tennis courts , the Roland Garros site would still only cover 21.5 acres , compared with 44 at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | But though diesels made sense on paper , some staff were not convinced and a few even changed jobs to escape employers who imposed diesel cars on them . |
| 6 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 7 | This evening will again start dry , but overnight the westerly winds will bring wintry showers inland into parts of Ayrshire , Dumfries and Galloway and a few right through to the Forth and Clyde valley . |
| 8 | She did get a few out of one bag and a few out of another . |
| 9 | Well , there must be those who are genuinely squeezed by operating from high-cost locations ; some who are , and some who think they are , providing a higher-quality service ; some simply over-priced due to inefficiencies ; and a few possibly making hay while the sun shines but who are ignoring the storm clouds of the recession . |
| 10 | Two groupings , with barely distinguishable names , have covered Teheran with photographs of bearded men and a few fully veiled women . |
| 11 | Primitive societies were ( and a few still are ) pre-literate : written information did not exist . |
| 12 | The quality of the music obviously varies , but many communities have had ( and a few still have ) distinguished musicians and liturgists among their number . |
| 13 | By the 1890s , Madeira was very popular with the British , French and German upper classes and a few very adventurous Americans . |
| 14 | C Walter Hodges offers the dust jacket and a few very powerful illustrations for Coleridge 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and we have to thank John Lawrence for some powerful black and white plates for Oxford University Press 's A New Treasury of Poetry . |
| 15 | The experimental city is about to become one of the ideas that everybody knows about , thinks about ; and a few actually do it , make it happen … |