Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I finish I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words about our commitment to Continuous News . |
| 2 | I was disappointed that the Home Secretary spent so much of his time this afternoon outlining a few examples of asylum seekers who have been proved to be lying . |
| 3 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 4 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 5 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 6 | Each jump crosses a few light-hours in a bio-second or two . |
| 7 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 8 | Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits . |
| 9 | But do n't commit yourself unwittingly to any liability exceeding a few pounds . |
| 10 | Ask any university graduate a few years on what they best remember from their student days and the answer is unlikely to be anything to do with their course . |
| 11 | Horses have always been an expensive pastime but in the current economic situation any chance to save a few pennies is more welcome than ever . |
| 12 | WITH a 40 per cent drop in house prices in the West Country over the past three years , this is the time to think seriously about that Cornish cliff-top cottage , waterfront Dorset flat or Devonian mansion with more than enough land to keep a few horses . |
| 13 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |
| 14 | Here , a family of three died … last year four people from the same family died a few miles furtehr east . |