Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] a few " in BNC.
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1 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
2 | In French West Africa a few stations , like the fine one at Bobo-Diolassu in Senegal , were built in a recognizably local style . |
3 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
4 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
5 | Ademar had become the undisputed head of the Taillefer family after the death of his brother William a few years earlier . |
6 | If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away . |