Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 2 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 3 | Fired by the skills of Steve Davis , I 'll go along to one of the local snooker halls for a few frames . |
| 4 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 5 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 6 | Outside the script departments of a few studios , too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts . |
| 7 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
| 8 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |
| 9 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
| 10 | According to Ms Fearnley , the concentration of listed audit clients among a few firms could present difficulties . |
| 11 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll give you some cortisone cream and I want you to wear cotton gloves for a few days , then come back and see me . |
| 13 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 14 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 15 | Create beautiful barrel curls and perfect evening styles with a little help from Schwarzkopf . |
| 16 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 17 | Despite predictions from the FFA that drift-netting would bring about the collapse of albacore stocks within a few years , the Japanese delegation steadfastly refused to make any concessions . |
| 18 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
| 19 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
| 20 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |
| 21 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 22 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 23 | When the loads are comparatively small in relation to the size it is generally best to concentrate the compression loads into a few compact , rod-like members and to diffuse the tensions into fabric and cords . |
| 24 | John Mather , chief geochemist at the British Geological Survey , warns that a third of our tapwater could exceed nitrate levels within a few decades . |
| 25 | Microworm are best cultured in small plastic containers such as well washed half pound margarine tubs with a few small holes pierced into the lid . |
| 26 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 27 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 28 | Dust working surfaces with a little icing sugar or cornflour when rolling out , to prevent sticking . |
| 29 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 30 | Leave to cool on the baking sheets for a few minutes , then transfer to a wire rack to cool . |