Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third blazed out its fiery message a few yards further on ; and a fourth and fifth , all along the line , until they disappeared as orange glowworms in the far distance of the French right wing . |
| 2 | She had been , before her second marriage a few years ago to Mr Alderley , Baroness to Lord Switham , who owned all the land round about , with the exception of Merchiston Lodge and other hunting boxes in the vicinity belonging to various members of the haut ton . |
| 3 | As she stood on the quayside looking , a little yappy dog scuttered up from the cabin snarling at her bare toes a few inches from the deck , and a woman in maroon trousers and a yellow and orange flowered bikini top bulged over with fiery red flesh looked crossly at Peony . |
| 4 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 5 | Her portion had been painted apricot , its front door a few tones darker than its walls . |
| 6 | It was useless to start calling her irresponsible brother a few names — he 'd always been the same , and she 'd known that , love him though she did , when they had moved to London . |
| 7 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 8 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 9 | And she has taught her new classmates a few words in Serbo-Croat . |
| 10 | Several characters repeat their main point a few times , but I see this as mantra-like rather than repetitive . |
| 11 | His feelings reached their bitter climax a few months later , when the war was over and the defeated French were in the throes of the Commune rising . |
| 12 | The championships ended with the Liberty Trophy final , when Cumbria added the county title to their fours success a few days earlier . |
| 13 | He who had been with Christ when the voice came to him saying , ‘ This is my Son , whom I love ’ , denied him three times a few months later . |
| 14 | The Vice-Admiral lived at the back , and he opened his front door a few seconds after Pooley rang the bell . |
| 15 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 16 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 17 | ‘ The 5-0 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday could prove to be a watershed , just like our 9-0 defeat a few seasons ago . ’ |