Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 2 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 3 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 4 | The Fritz Bank foreign exchange dealer in Frankfurt might quote the exporter a three months ' DM forward rate at a premium of DM0.05–0.04 . |
| 5 | At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | The other boy will mash tea a dozen times a day — your house becomes a transport cafe . |
| 7 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 8 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 9 | no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago |
| 10 | Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers . |
| 11 | I was in the air force a few years later . ’ |
| 12 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 13 | Covered from neck to knee in a thick towelling robe , she swept back into the bedroom a few moments later . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 16 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 17 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 18 | She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later . |
| 19 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 20 | All the genes in that individual would be copies , with or without modification , of genes in a single ancestor a million generations ago . |
| 21 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 22 | ‘ The 5-0 defeat at Liverpool on Saturday could prove to be a watershed , just like our 9-0 defeat a few seasons ago . ’ |
| 23 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 24 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 25 | Philip left Darlington Hockey Club a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and joined Norton . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And he said , ‘ I have in my mind a million notes , and every one which is not perfect makes me mad . ’ |