Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] a [det] " in BNC.

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1 In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 .
2 Mr Harland added : ‘ Unfortunately in this case a few of our postmen failed to interpret those rules correctly .
3 Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves .
4 Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful .
5 You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top .
6 At this Conference a former member of Edenderry , the Reverend John England , General Secretary for Home Missions , was inducted as Vice-President of the Conference and President of the Church .
7 Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting .
8 Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way .
9 Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M .
10 I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago .
11 ‘ There was another accident a little way down the carriageway and people slowed down to rubberbeck and drove into the back of each other . ’
12 First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ .
13 Do do you still do this title an all ?
14 To this day a few of the fields around the village tell of its past history .
15 The Nicholson racing team from Temple Guting are really galloping away … on Saturday Waterloo Boy was a winner again … at Hereford this afternoon they were first past the post with Barrica … that 's seventy winners this season an all time personal best …
16 Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries .
17 This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so .
18 So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble .
19 Against this gloom a few heroic individuals stood out , both for their ingenuity and their concern for agricultural well-being .
20 Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before .
21 The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted .
22 Post a letter to another country a few hundred miles along the West African coast : it will be hand-sorted in a sorting office at the back of st Paul 's cathedral in London .
23 This time a few , reluctant drops spattered the millpond surface but did not disturb it .
24 By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them .
25 Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago .
26 Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation .
27 Self-indulgence , simply because facilities are there to be used , is a poor substitute for prior thought and it is amazing how much paper a few cross-tabulations can use up .
28 It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg .
29 San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) .
30 Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting .
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