Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might get a bit of a mixture a few other birds not always sparrows . |
| 2 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 3 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 4 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 5 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 6 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 7 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 8 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 9 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 10 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 11 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 12 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Twenty-third July — sitting under a tree a few yards from my slit trench writing a letter to my parents in Glasgow . |
| 14 | Their first project , the design of a wetland to treat household sewage from a hotel a few miles from Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness , exemplifies this belief . |
| 15 | The law of nuisance , therefore , affords little or no protection either to a complainant who is unduly sensitive to an odour emission , or where the use interfered with is a sensitive one , as when the taste of biscuits manufactured under controlled conditions , was adversely affected by odorous fumes from a source a few miles away . |
| 16 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 17 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |
| 18 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 19 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 21 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 22 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 23 | IN A SPEECH a few weeks after he became Conservative Party chairman , Chris Patten developed an interesting thesis about this election . |
| 24 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 25 | ‘ To a man without a job a few more houses on a field or a few foreign accents in the local pub seem a price worth paying for prosperity . |
| 26 | Things came to a head a few weeks before Christmas , when Mazzin decided it would be fun to frogmarch us to and from the bathroom . |
| 27 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 28 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 29 | Ace caught it , almost pulled Defries from her perch , released it , and rolled to a stop a few metres further down the slope . |
| 30 | He waited till they slowed to a stop a few feet away and a voice said , ‘ Joe ? |