Example sentences of "[noun] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
| 32 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 33 | Philip left Darlington Hockey Club a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and joined Norton . |
| 34 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 35 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 36 | and finally , our amblings from Kimblesworth cricket club a few weeks back erred in suggesting that Maltby , near Thornaby , dropped out of the National Village Cup because they thought Kimblesworth a bit far . |
| 37 | They had thus sighted the continent a few days later than Bellingshausen 's sighting in longitude 2°15' W. Bransfield 's manuscript chart is in the hydrographic department of the Admiralty . |
| 38 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 39 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 40 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 41 | After her move from New York to New Mexico a few years ago , Rothenberg became neighbours with another aritst who has strongly influenced her career , Agnes martin . |
| 42 | These had followed a similarly successful event held in Brussels a few years ago for members in Belgium . |
| 43 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 44 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 45 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 46 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
| 47 | Jus ’ fink of it , mate , me an' you givin' the lads a few lessons an' organisin' a few tournaments . |
| 48 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
| 49 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 50 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 51 | At his lunch break a few days later Mr Wolski took his sandwiches and sat on the benches opposite the eagle and looked at her . |
| 52 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 53 | yeah , that , that 's how I bought it in Sainsburys a few years ago |
| 54 | There 's a lot of misunderstanding about I S O Nine Thousand and I think that Norman 's er analogy a few seconds ago is really , really rather good . |
| 55 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 56 | , the PA at the fine art people took me to Perth Theatre one Friday a few weeks ago to see a stupendous , lively , robust performance of ‘ Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off ’ I could see it again , it was so good . |
| 57 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
| 58 | Him and David a few beers What you doing with the mum ? |
| 59 | The band does n't occupy all our time , but we 're alive and we 're well ; I spoke to David a few weeks ago , and we 're trying to juggle the schedules to go into the studio early next year . ’ |
| 60 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |