Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 2 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 3 | Obviously Duncan was calling in a few debts . |
| 4 | ‘ The shot that killed Garland was fired at a few minutes past ten . |
| 5 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 6 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 7 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 8 | Finch was one of the most famous cellists in Europe , and Henry was known to a few as his accompanist . |