Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 2 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 3 | The Dane did not look too happy when substituted 10 minutes from time , and Newcastle faded after his departure , surviving a few uncomfortable moments before the end . |
| 4 | ‘ A few coy looks , fluttering eyelashes , all that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 5 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 6 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 7 | A few unhappy lines from long lost relatives ? |
| 8 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 9 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 10 | Golf is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide , and for many playing a few leisurely games is the top priority during a weekend . |
| 11 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 13 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 14 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 15 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 16 | Jack had borrowed boots and skis for me and I stumbled out into the great outdoors and enjoyed a few hasty lessons down the snow-covered slopes of the mountain . |
| 17 | He says that they get quite a few injured badgers this time of year . |
| 18 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |
| 19 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 20 | A few outstanding bills were paid , and the application by the master and matron for a testimonial was granted . |
| 21 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 22 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 23 | They need a few outstanding individuals to lead them and to rally them when they flee . |
| 24 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 25 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 26 | 18 Ross argued that an asset 's average long-term return is dependent on its sensitivity to unanticipated changes in a few economic variables . |
| 27 | So is this just with a few major accounts or |
| 28 | Only a few major groups survived into the Carboniferous , but they can still be locally abundant . |
| 29 | While the criteria apply to around 260 companies throughout Europe , Jeffrey Knight , special adviser to the Federation , says that it hopes to start the Eurolist early next year with a few major companies and then expand it rapidly . |
| 30 | There are a few major gaps , however , such as the Duke of Sutherland 's Titians , which no amount of string-pulling could unloosen ; Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ and his ‘ Venus ’ in Dresden , which is in a ruinous state , and his ‘ Three philosophers ’ in Vienna , which the Kunsthistorisches Museum , after some hesitation , decided not to lend . |