Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
2 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |
3 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
4 | Thus only cause seems appropriate in the uses given below : ( 142 ) … moved the governor 's race forward a few months , causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual . |
5 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |