Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new eukaryotic cell was porous , and surrounded by a membrane a few ten-millionths of a millimetre thick . |
| 2 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 3 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 4 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 5 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 6 | He waited till they slowed to a stop a few feet away and a voice said , ‘ Joe ? |
| 7 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | As they drew closer , they could see that the sides of the surrounding containers were covered with a gleaming wetness , spattered to a height a few feet above their heads . |
| 9 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 10 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 11 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 12 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 13 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |