Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 2 | In French West Africa a few stations , like the fine one at Bobo-Diolassu in Senegal , were built in a recognizably local style . |
| 3 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 4 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 5 | A newspaper report that Lord Glenconner had spent over £500,000 on entertaining the rich and famous at his 60th birthday party a few years ago , must have made his hard-working forebears turn in their graves . |
| 6 | Many of you will be aware of the launch of the Brecon Beacons National Park Society a few weeks ago and are perhaps wondering what effect this will have on the activities of CPRW and this branch in particular . |
| 7 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 8 | Nor was it clear that Balfour 's departure was universally desired : at the National Union Conference a few days later , Leo Maxse was booed off the platform , and constituency parties everywhere passed resolutions regretting Balfour 's decision . |
| 9 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 10 | I felt sorry fer 'er Ernie. 'E come 'ome that night wiv a few drinks inside 'im an' 'im an' Maudie got at it . |
| 11 | The Pru was the first insurer to restate its accounts under the method as supplementary information , although BAT released accrual information a few days later . |
| 12 | Walkers will visit every working men 's club in the area , and the money raised will be presented to Darlington Hospice representative Tony Morris at the club 's Grand Charity Concert a few days later . |
| 13 | But so he should , for project coordinator at Blackfriars , with partner travelled to Germany to represent Great Britain in the European Bridge Championships a few days later in March . |
| 14 | There are many good beaches and a chance to bathe in warmed by Dungeness C , the underwater nuclear power station a few miles offshore . |
| 15 | That 's a small farming village a few kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn . |
| 16 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 17 | It was Morgan 's handling of the attempted bank raid a few days earlier in Cardiff which turned the trick . |
| 18 | Everyone rushed outside in pyjamas and bare feet and there across the field the aircraft lay , on fire from wingtip to wingtip , with the broken-off tail section a few feet away . |
| 19 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 20 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 21 | Their house was too small to put us up so we stayed in a new motor camp a few miles further along the road , in Portobello ( odd to get all these Edinburgh names , 12,000 miles away ! ) . |
| 22 | Between them , I see through large holes to moist saffron earth a few feet below . |
| 23 | He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap . |
| 24 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 25 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |
| 26 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |