Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it was Maldita , a grey mare who had slipped into the yard already broken as part of a job lot a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | There was a moped leaning against a mud wall a few feet away . |
| 3 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 4 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 5 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 6 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 7 | I was able to buy a second-hand machine with an electric motor at a charity shop a few months ago . |
| 8 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |