Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pennano had leaked an " alternative economic plan " , advocating indexation of salaries and key prices and the creation of a new inti with a fixed parity against the US dollar . |
| 2 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 3 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 4 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 5 | I showered and then decided to lie in a hot bath for a few minutes with a cup of tea at my elbow and the latest Kingsley Amis in front of my face . |
| 6 | But this means that the soil for seed-sowing can be done simply by covering a patch for a few days with a sheet of polythene anchored by bricks or stones — in the absence , of course , of cloches . |
| 7 | John went over to Mosquito Island where he has established James for a few days with a government tent , man and fitting-up . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 9 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 10 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 11 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |