Example sentences of "[noun pl] a few [noun pl] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 2 | Nearly all of this material was obtained by scooping the top of the surface , or by picking up small rocks up to about fist-size , or from cores a few centimetres in diameter and up to 2.4 metres deep . |
| 3 | Pulsars are compact stars a few kilometres in diameter with masses around . |
| 4 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |
| 5 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |