Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She followed Edgar a few paces across the room .
2 The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road .
3 Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia .
4 The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden .
5 When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear .
6 The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert .
7 Certainly , Jacques passed on Green 's approbation of Barker 's attitude to Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith a few days after the late February meeting :
8 So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there .
9 Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle .
10 ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused .
11 Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie .
12 The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’
13 And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out .
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