Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , there are a few areas where quality control could be bettered , but basically the instrument does not suffer in any way . |
| 2 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 3 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 4 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 5 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 6 | Just a few days later baby Joe was born , weighing just four and three quarter pounds , but healthy ; living proof that rhesus babies now have the chance they deserve . |
| 7 | A few days later president Wilson proclaimed his ‘ Fourteen Points ’ , his own version of the new consensus . |
| 8 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 9 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 10 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |