Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 2 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 3 | Allow one month for depopulation , one month while the new birds settle in and one month for the production to increase , basically producing most grades under size four with a few size fours and threes thrown in . |
| 4 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 5 | Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes . |
| 6 | In a few rings one of the carbons is replaced by an atom of oxygen , nitrogen or sulphur which can cause problems . |
| 7 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 8 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
| 9 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
| 10 | Also ‘ areas ’ may refer to a few kms 2 or to whole countries , so that areas or pockets of declining food production may coexist with , and have no social access to , other areas of increased food production . |
| 11 | One of their riders Paul Muchene died after an accident at an another track 3 years ago . |