Example sentences of "a few [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as there is a healthy collection of lactobacilli in the vagina , conditions will be unfavourable for other micro-organisms , and , although a few such organisms may be isolated , their presence does not signify any important infection . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Dunbars have observed only a few such fights to completion but the outcome is quite remarkable . |
| 4 | There are indeed a few such verbs , keep being one of them . |
| 5 | We do still have a few such courses and they work quite well . |
| 6 | However , in dodder the production of a few such coils usually triggers the development of haustoria which eventually establish the supply lines with the host . |
| 7 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 8 | He even suggested that a few such representatives from outside the government might be co-opted on to the State Council , the supreme bureaucratic body beneath the Tsar . |
| 9 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 10 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 11 | There are a few each month . |
| 12 | Erm try and do a few each week . |
| 13 | Right , and that , that 's obviously a , an and if you look at it , it 's it 's got a few less squiggles than that one , but it 's a , it 's a version of . |
| 14 | There may be a few more Mitterrand loyalists , a few less Rocard supporters and non-Socialist centrists , and one more woman ( seven out of 46 ministers , including the new prime minister , Edith Cresson ) . |
| 15 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 16 | more and more saying look and let's try and kill a few less people . |
| 17 | We want a few less troublemakers |
| 18 | It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome . |
| 19 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 20 | She nibbled a few more flakes of meat and dropped the bone back on to her plate . |
| 21 | In the meanwhile , do you think you could persuade a few more salmon to get into the rivers around your neck of the woods by the time next season opens ? |
| 22 | I know it is , it 's not exactly doing a lot for me either but er cos it gets raised every bloody management meeting but I think having discussed the matter we 've actually opened ourselves out a few more options than we probably thought we had |
| 23 | Lancing , who surprised themselves and everyone else by making their first appearance in the Halford Hewitt Cup final against the winners , Shrewsbury , last April , will raise a few more eyebrows if they do half as well this time . |
| 24 | A few more times and you 'd get it . |
| 25 | However , Sally did try sniffing a few more times ( fortunately , without coming to any harm ) but then decided it was n't for her , and instead started drinking alcohol with her friends . |
| 26 | She began to feel that if she did this a few more times she would get the hang of it . |
| 27 | I went along a few more times , but just sat there in silence . |
| 28 | The speaker scraped and clicked a few more times , but after half a minute of no reply the phone was rehooked . |
| 29 | Turkey Lurkie blew his beak loudly and sniffed a few more times . |
| 30 | He flicked the switch up and down a few more times . |