Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 2 | So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days . |
| 3 | A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more . |
| 4 | I hope she is still around for quite a few more years . ’ |
| 5 | So anyway , that was it , you had to go to your branch and complain , make your protest in writing , see , and the branch secretary would reply to your letter okay , And they 'd ask for maybe a few more details about the complaint . |
| 6 | We plan to launch at least a dozen more agencies in April , when 50 per cent . |
| 7 | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane . |