Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine .
2 In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further .
3 The Sparcserver 10 introduces a compact new version of the desktop pizza box enclosure : by lowering the bottom of the pizza box a few millimetres and stacking MBus and SBus expansion slots , SMCC engineers have created a more powerful desktop server with the same footprint as the Sparcserver 2 but with up to five times the applications throughput , five times the memory capacity , double the disk storage and 25% more expansion capacity .
4 His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding .
5 Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way .
6 It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it .
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