Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 2 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 3 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 4 | A survey of the biota of the river between 1979 and 1981 revealed that the macroinvertebrate fauna had been adversely affected , involving loss of diversity and the proliferation of a few species which are tolerant of high levels of pollution . |
| 5 | Was it mere petulance on the part of a former leader who remains unreconciled to her overthrow ? |
| 6 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 7 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 8 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 9 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 10 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 11 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 12 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 13 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 14 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 15 | In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep . |
| 16 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 17 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 18 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 19 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 20 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |
| 21 | But most of England is a thousand years old , and in the walk of a few miles one would touch nearly every century in that long stretch of time . |
| 22 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 23 | It is delivered in the form of a few coins which bear the likeness of the last president , a pleasant utopian who retired of his own free will . |
| 24 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 26 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 27 | This chapter is written with humility and with admiration by a former librarian whose strategy , when dealing with troublesome readers , was to go to pieces and leave it to Nancy . |