Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 2 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 3 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
| 4 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 5 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 6 | It had been brought to the house by a friend only a few weeks earlier for shooting rabbits on the Blenheim estate . |
| 7 | Bear in mind that foot health has a very low rating on a " need to know " basis for a mother with a baby only a few weeks old . |
| 8 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 9 | Our hero then has to cope not only with a lively two year old but also with his burgeoning infatuation for a woman quite a few rungs above him on the social ladder . |
| 10 | Oh yes , yes you know where you work in the Derbyshire Peaks , I had a guide here a few weeks ago , and I kept it , it 's upstairs , and it actually put the English Channel going up there , the Peak District . |
| 11 | they had a barn just a little way from the house , you could see it but it |
| 12 | ‘ You , ’ the constable pointed to Will , ‘ what have you seen , was there a man here a few minutes ago or not ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There was a man here a few days ago . |
| 14 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 15 | We did n't meet that night , but we went to a restaurant together a few weeks later and he said he was interested in the scripts . |
| 16 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 17 | He was a sub quite a few times towards the end of our first season in Div One . |
| 18 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 19 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 20 | Jacob was not waiting there , but he put in an appearance only a few minutes later , beaming cheerfully . |
| 21 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |