Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 2 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 3 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 4 | He played for Middlesex in the 1950s , but in the heyday of Compton and Edrich he was forging an international reputation a few miles away from Lords , at Wembley . |
| 5 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 6 | Hardly the kind of sentiment to galvanise an inexperienced squad a few weeks before its departure for an eight-match tour to New Zealand . |
| 7 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 8 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 9 | OUR friends at Mission Impossible , Darlington FC 's un surpassed fanzine , carried an enthusiastic review a few editions back of a book on the fall and fall of Workington Town . |
| 10 | It was irregularly paved , and lit only by an open window a few storeys above . |
| 11 | The event might not have any obvious long-term adverse significance and may in fact have seemingly positive rather than negative features , such as the reappearance and request to renew contact with a lover with whom a person had had an intense relationship a few years earlier . |
| 12 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |