Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] 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 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later . |
| 5 | Last night rescuers used airbags to prise the wreck a few inches off the ground . |
| 6 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | OSF is said to have got the go-ahead to reveal the agreement a few weeks ago , but waited to announce at Unix Expo . |
| 9 | 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 . |