Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The manager , symbolically , takes his or her ‘ tin cup ’ in hand and walks around the organization ‘ begging ’ for involvement , seeing who has a little bit to chip in , who has a few spare budget dollars to invest , who has a staff member to lend , who will be on the advisory committee , or who has key data . |
| 32 | The decision was made ‘ after giving serious thought to the rejection of myself by a few Labour Party activists , ’ said Mr Knight . |
| 33 | If the tapping of telephones of trade unionists in industrial disputes is difficult to justify , even less justifiable is the evidence of the routine and systematic interception of telephones of a few key union leaders . |
| 34 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 35 | I wandered round the spectacular mall , deserted except for a few armed security guards , paint-smart in peaked hats and short-sleeved shirts . |
| 36 | Meiosis can not normally occur unless the chromosomes form so-called homologous pairs ; despite this , meiosis did occasionally occur and a few normal-looking egg cells appeared . |
| 37 | A few sugar-free yoghurt drops or a Rite Weight diet meal will soon restore that missing frisk — and perhaps persuade a hound to turn VEGGIE . |
| 38 | There are a few prominent poll tax Welsh Members sitting on the Government Benches today . |
| 39 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 40 | The suburban setting of my destination was unexceptional , simply a footbridge over tracks , a few solemn railway buildings , a row of villas , a couple of trees . |
| 41 | Her purse , containing a few thousand lire , was still there ; so were her traveller 's cheques and credit cards . |
| 42 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 43 | a few thousand pound now . |
| 44 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 45 | A few discreet phone calls and suddenly I find myself shunted into a siding while the investigation into Ruggiero 's murder passes me by . ’ |
| 46 | As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style . |
| 47 | Everyone is keen to see otter , but again they prove elusive and we round the north of the island with nothing other than a few passing gannet , some tysties and shags and a couple of rabbits spotted among the peaty banks . |
| 48 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 49 | A few other bird species also show this type of deceptive behaviour . |
| 50 | And , for as long as the robots of science fact were limited to the assembly lines of the automotive and a few other manufacturing industries , our general perception of the robot was unlikely to change . |
| 51 | A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks . |
| 52 | A few other metal objects had been fired , such as clocks and hair brushes … but they had proved quite useless . |
| 53 | If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable . |
| 54 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 55 | They might also occur in infants with congenital hypothyroidism and in a few other muscle disorders ; for example , the Manitoba group reported a false positive in an infant with a congenital myopathy as part of the Walker-Warburg syndrome . |
| 56 | We urged the WO to get the SoS to revoke a few such departure applications to send a clear signal to these ( and all planning authorities ) , that the SoS expects them to follow Government guidance . |
| 57 | Georgia O'Keeffe ( sic ) , who exhibited very worthwhile things last year , shows a few good flower studies , notably a fine one of calla lilies , but the rest of her show might be termed a flop both in colour and design . |
| 58 | Nicholson got nothing out of it except a few good pay days and suffered occasional touches of melancholia about his work ; he was getting ‘ old ’ and anything substantial was nowhere in sight . |
| 59 | There are a few good typing tutors on the market — I learnt to touch type with Mavis Beacon . |
| 60 | The reluctance to invest in a few good demonstration videos may stem not only from the fact that there are indeed some very poor , amateurish productions around , but also , compared with most books , videos are still comparatively expensive . |