Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 2 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 3 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 4 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 5 | Zach , Tom discovered , was a voluble , curly-haired boy a few months older than Willie , only taller and in bad need , so he thought , of a haircut . |
| 6 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 7 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 8 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 9 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
| 10 | In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She completed the course a few pounds heavier and clutching a diploma for her efforts . |
| 13 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
| 14 | By the power of Numbskull , Jason , thou truly art a few Brontoburgers short of a picnic ! |
| 15 | ‘ Touch my toes a few times first . |
| 16 | Her portion had been painted apricot , its front door a few tones darker than its walls . |
| 17 | Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison . |
| 18 | The screws that they used in the workshop came in plastic bags a few inches square . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's like bits of a film — I have only fragments , each image a few seconds long . |
| 21 | There are three main highland regions ( Figure 4.5 ) : Ishtar Terra , which is a plateau ; Aphrodite Terra , which is rougher , and bears wide linear depressions a few kilometres deep ; and Beta Regio , which could possibly be two shield volcanoes . |
| 22 | Harvey lived with his wife and two children a few miles outside town on the road to Laredo and the Mexican border . |
| 23 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
| 24 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |