Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 2 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 3 | . Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced the Channel Tunnel has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers , and after that incident a few weeks ago , which was er certainly played down by the authorities , I wonder just how safe the Tunnel is . |
| 4 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 6 | We took us caravan up that way a few years ago I ca n't remember s what it called s sa what they call the men up there ? |
| 7 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 8 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 9 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 10 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 11 | Madam Deputy Speaker : As the hon. Gentleman knows , the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) raised a point of order on that matter a few moments ago — but as the hon. Member for Falkirk , East represents the constituency concerned , it is understandable that he wants to raise it again , and in a most helpful manner . |
| 12 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 13 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 14 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 15 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 16 | Well at that age a few months makes a difference . |
| 17 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |