Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [Wh adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
| 2 | They had cornered the Jeopardites in a canyon where a few makeshift tents indicated a Jeopardite camp had been discovered . |
| 3 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 4 | They went across the fields and came to a place where a few stones lay , giving no indication at all that they had once combined to form a dwelling for holy women . |
| 5 | Known as the White Polled in the late nineteenth century , the breed was then described as quiet and gentle , similar in size and growth rate to the Red Poll at a time when the few existing white herds were found mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk . |