Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was on her way home from a party … walking back through the city to her lodgings at Somerville college a few hundred yards from the Memorial . |
| 2 | Sheldon Glashow writing his thesis at Harvard University a few years later , and Abdus Salam and John Ward independently in Imperial College , London , took this similarity seriously . |
| 3 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 4 | Four rooms are also available at a supplement of £40 ( single £58 ) at the small but elegant Bridgend Hotel a few miles inland ( all private facilities ) . |
| 5 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 6 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 7 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 8 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 9 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 10 | His remarks reflected the general alteration in TANU policy which was to be embodied in the Arusha Declaration a few days later . |
| 11 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 12 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 13 | The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before . |
| 14 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 15 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 16 | When the news was broadcast on Teheran radio a few moments later , the city erupted in joy . |
| 17 | Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents . |
| 18 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 19 | Can I just quite clearly put on record , and it 's a unanimous decision of the board , we wrote to Edinburgh District a few weeks ago , we 've told them that we will use our best endeavours David , to prosecute the application at Hammerston If we get planning consent and we decide that we ca n't afford a new stadium in total , because of the economic situation , we are aggressively re-looking at the redevelopment of Tynecastle . |
| 20 | But Florida has two other prominent international junior training centres — the Rick Macci International Tennis Academy at Grenelefe Resort a few miles from Orlando and Disney World ; and Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook Resort in the town of Wesley Chapel near Tampa . |
| 21 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |