Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman .
2 At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street .
3 ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later .
4 Last night rescuers used airbags to prise the wreck a few inches off the ground .
5 If you do need your ears syringing , however , it 's a good idea to use olive oil to soften the wax a few days beforehand .
6 OSF is said to have got the go-ahead to reveal the agreement a few weeks ago , but waited to announce at Unix Expo .
7 Instead it collapses in on itself catastrophically to produce an object a few kilometres across , known as either a neutron star or a pulsar ; often this is accompanied by a stupendous explosion , a supernova .
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