Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 2 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 3 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 4 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 5 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 6 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 7 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 8 | Many Americans , for example , have individual septic tanks , and in only a few countries , such as England and West Germany , does sewerage dominate sanitation systems . |
| 9 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 10 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |