Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The delay in starting the course until January was caused by her leaving an interval of a few months before approaching Oxford .
2 Newcomers this year include Galerie Bruno Meissner from Zurich , while Spink from London will be returning after an absence of a few years .
3 No I 'm not : first I 'm going to wander round Bristol and try and get myself a job , then I 'm going to persuade the manager to give me an advance of a few pounds so I can get myself something to eat and find somewhere to stay .
4 Emitting clicks containing between 20 and 230 pulses per second , and lasting from around one to five seconds , they are capable of distinguishing different sizes of fish to an accuracy of a few millimetres .
5 The accuracy of this technique has been steadily improving and measurements can now be made over thousands of kilometres to an accuracy of a few millimetres .
6 An envelope of a few Liverpool sermons survived ; including the first sermon which he ever delivered there ( text I Peter 2 : 9 , ‘ ye are an elect race ’ ) .
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