Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took over as chairman a few months later . |
| 2 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 3 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
| 4 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
| 5 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 6 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
| 7 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 8 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 9 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
| 10 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 11 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
| 12 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 14 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 16 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
| 17 | ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’ |
| 18 | That calm , matter-of-fact voice belonged to Jack Swigert , the command module pilot , who survived that close call but died of cancer a few weeks ago . |
| 19 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 20 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 21 | The reason for this was the bright point of light that had popped into existence a few feet from his eyes . |
| 22 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 23 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 24 | Of course this notice would naturally not be signed by both parties as required by s. 2 , which had come into effect a few weeks before . |
| 25 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |
| 26 | A DENSE DARKNESS YOU COULD TOUCH , THE WHIRRING DIN OF THE COAL-CUTTING MACHINE , THROWING INTO THE AIR BLACK DUST SO THICK THAT THE LIGHT BEAMS FROM THE MINERS ’ LAMPS COULD ONLY SHINE INTO IT A FEW INCHES . |
| 27 | Beginners are often surprised at the length of time it takes a learner to learn something : they tend to think that they need to say something once only for the whole class to have it ready for use a few seconds later . |
| 28 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 29 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 30 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |