Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 2 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 3 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 4 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 5 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 6 | And the finding of the suit a few years ago was the start of the hunt that they now have every year , ’ she explained matter-of-factly as though it were the most usual thing in the world . |
| 7 | At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan . |
| 8 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 9 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 10 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 11 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 12 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 13 | Let me ask some members of the congregation a few questions : |
| 14 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 15 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 16 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 17 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 18 | If this is not possible , allow roughly the same amount of space on each opposing side ( for example , by placing one side of the rug a few feet from a wall and the opposite side the same distance from a large piece of furniture ) . |
| 19 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |
| 20 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
| 21 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 22 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ We started producing CD and SRi versions with the airbag a few weeks ago so several customers will already have been pleasantly surprised to find that their new car has one fitted completely free of charge . ’ |
| 24 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 25 | Given that the West Highland Way drops into the glen a few miles further down , there 's a possibility of a two-day circular route . |
| 26 | She walked into the sitting-room a few minutes later as he was replacing the phone . |
| 27 | She comes into the capital a few nights a week , moonlighting from her day job , which is being a seamstress . |
| 28 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 29 | He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes . |
| 30 | When we spilled out into the street a few minutes later , it was in a kind of glow . |