Example sentences of "[noun] to a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
| 2 | Let us suppose that your department is keen to try investigative work ; some have been on courses ; there is access to a few ideas from books and journals ; and the main concern is how people will cope personally and pedagogically in the classroom . |
| 3 | We draw attention in the appropriate chapters to a few differences between our analysis and recommendations and those of the Kingman Committee . |
| 4 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |
| 5 | ‘ Did that swift eclipse torture you ? /A star at eighteen and then — suddenly gone/ down to a few lines in the back page of a teenage annual/oh but I remember you/I looked up to you ’ — ‘ Little Man , What Now ? ’ . |
| 6 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |