Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a few " in BNC.

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1 The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before .
2 Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets .
3 Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few .
4 Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones .
5 Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing .
6 With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences .
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