Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime . |
| 2 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 3 | Their marriage had nearly ended a few months back . |
| 4 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 5 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 6 | A few yards beyond this , the tramway turned left to terminate a few yards into Thicket Road , by the Penge entrance of the Crystal Palace grounds . |
| 7 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 8 | And that 's like an old specification tarted up to sell a few extra cars . |
| 9 | Worm baits also tempted a few whiting and coalfish . |
| 10 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |