Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’ |
| 3 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 4 | We hear that they made a few proposals of an undetermined nature which we are sure do not involve recording contracts … lives of the rich and famous , eh ? |
| 5 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 6 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 7 | ‘ There must be a few votes for an old soldier in the British Legion clubs , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 8 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 9 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 10 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 11 | After a few weeks on an unsweetened diet , it is remarkable how disgusting anything sugary tastes . |
| 12 | By September , a few weeks before an official visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Tun Razak , the Soviet press described the ZOPFAN initiative as ‘ an idea that can not be underestimated ’ . |
| 13 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 14 | The contract should have been drafted to take account of United Kingdom law , it was simply not good enough to make a few modifications to an American form of contract . |
| 15 | Here are a few bars of an imaginary harp part , to make the method of notation clear : |
| 16 | Just a few jottings on an interesting rail topic can make useful copy . |