Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 2 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 3 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 4 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 5 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 6 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 7 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 8 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 9 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 10 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 11 | As I sat facing the prisoners with an automatic weapon across my knees , I could still see the wounded German Officer a few yards away . |
| 12 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 13 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 14 | It was certainly impressive from the cool , dark hilltop a few leagues away , where two figures were watching with considerable interest . |
| 15 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 16 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 17 | It was hardly a coincidence that the MATIF launched an Italian Government Bond future contract a few weeks ahead of LIFFE 's similar product in September 1991 . |
| 18 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 19 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 20 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 21 | NIGEL AND ELEANOR HAD THEIR FIRST SERIOUS QUARREL A FEW months later . |
| 22 | But at least in introducing the 1983 Annual Report a few months later he announced with pride ‘ Your Committee has brought out the Bondholders ! ’ |
| 23 | Here was a Burger King , untouched , though the crowd must have swept past it as they hastened to torch ( loot is too optimistic a word for these foul establishments ) the Winchells Do-nut restaurant a few yards further on . |
| 24 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 25 | In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula . |
| 26 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 27 | There was another memorable moment a few months later when she was flown to Leeds by the same helicopter — ‘ I have to admit , it 's my favourite method of transport ’ — to attend a Press conference . |
| 28 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co folks laid us a false trail a few weeks ago when we reported — on their say-so — that the company would be letting two more Snakes out of the basket come mid September ( UX No 397 ) . |
| 30 | He turned his head , and saw a human foot a few inches away . |