Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , the winning substitute , says he owes Adams a few big drinks after the advice he received on how to ride Party Politics . |
| 2 | Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides . |
| 3 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 4 | In Italy a few famous and ancient republics — Venice , Genoa , Lucca — continued to exist ; and in some of them republican government , even in the highly oligarchical form which had prevailed in these small States for centuries , continued to arouse genuine loyalty . |
| 5 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 6 | Kom Ombo and Edfu , like the fitness of my charges , have been and gone , and now at Esna a few determined explorers rattle by horse-drawn carriage towards the town centre at 6am . |
| 7 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 8 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
| 9 | There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house , so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too . |
| 10 | Each night as he lay in bed he would imagine himself catching the train from the local station — such reveries usually assumed the initial achievement of getting outside the camp — or stalking the frontier guards among the mountains with Switzerland a few hundred yards away across the snow … |