Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They threaded their way through the vegetable market , full of dull early spring vegetables instead of the mounds of tomatoes and aubergines and peppers and artichokes that Julia longed to see and buy , and reached the Tribunale di Giustizia a few minutes later .
2 A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later .
3 ‘ We 'll leave it for now and stream Uncle Manfred a few times . ’
4 Siouxsie Sioux , about ten years ago , adopting a pose very similar to that of P J Harvey a few weeks ago , only she was wearing a Greek fisherman 's hat
5 Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 .
6 But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried .
7 Muge , who had accused government members of being involved in Ouko 's murder , had been threatened by Labour Minister Peter Okondo a few days before his death ; Okondo later resigned from the government .
8 For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence .
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