Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
2 | When the erstwhile All Blacks ' captain , Wayne Shelford , was asked on Saturday evening if the appointment of Gavin Hastings , assuming it transpired , was to be seen as a victory for the Celtic fringe , he answered simply that it would have an awful lot more to do with his having some decidedly impressive credentials . |
3 | It had been a grand few minutes ' work . |
4 | After a frantic few minutes ' chase the skua realises this is n't going to be cost-effective and breaks off to look for something easier . |
5 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
6 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |
7 | Colonel Edward Akroyd , the Liberal MP for Huddersfield , had in 1856 commissioned Scott to design the stately Gothic All Souls ' Church at Haley Hill , near Halifax , and the abortive Gothic scheme for Halifax Town Hall . |
8 | Their collapse from top to near bottom has given grim satisfaction their army of ill-wishers in the rest of Welsh rugby , but really the seeds of the Welsh All Blacks ' failure were seen when they were becoming champions . |
9 | Giving out eve-of-poll leaflets at the tube station , I get the same subliminal message as from the past few nights ' TV : increasingly confident Tories , and puzzled , frustrated socialists . |