Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In answer to John Mowforth 's justified moan about Warwick truss rods — I 'm a guitar repairer and I was presented with the exact same problem by one of my clients a few months ago . |
2 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
3 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
4 | Sitting in front of her mirror a few minutes later , re-doing her face , she said , " You 've got thinner — much too thin — and that 's a beautiful suit . |
5 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
6 | The fourth member of the farmhouse group was led blinking out of his bedroom a few seconds later , a thin , scrawny young man with lank hair . |