Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun pl] [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 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
4 | In a few rings one of the carbons is replaced by an atom of oxygen , nitrogen or sulphur which can cause problems . |
5 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
8 | 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 . |