Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the programme a few specimens of achondrites were found in both the Allan Hills and Yamato ice fields . |
| 2 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 3 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 4 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 5 | He was treasurer of the RAS from 1831 to 1840 and became president a few years before his death in 1866 . |
| 6 | I practice a few poses for Marcus . |
| 7 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 8 | Shifting slightly , he drilled a new indentation a few inches from the original . |
| 9 | A survey of usage also brings to light a few cases of a rare use — the to infinitive denoting an action after make . |
| 10 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 11 | In his English Botany ( 1806 ) James Sowerby mentions them as in their millions on the coast a few kilometres off Liverpool . |
| 12 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 13 | There is a pleasant little cafe bar a hundred yards down the road and a disco a little further on and far enough away to avoid disturbing the neighbourhood . |
| 14 | Ferrying American aircraft to Russia had kept him far away from his own village a few kilometres outside Moscow . |
| 15 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 16 | She was brought up in Cramer , a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh . |
| 17 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 18 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 19 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 20 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 21 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 22 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |
| 23 | Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour . |
| 24 | The first flare was fired , dropping away to explode into fiery incandescence a thousand feet above the surface , a snaking , burning star suspended on a miniature parachute . |
| 25 | In three of the six subjects ( responders ) methane excretion showed a pronounced fall a few days after SO 4 was added to the diet , so that by 10 days with added sulphate methane concentration was less than 2 ppm in all samples measured in these three subjects . |
| 26 | Recordings of spontaneous interaction were made , first at home a few weeks before starting school , and then in the classroom after approximately six weeks at school . |
| 27 | Trent pinched Golden Girl a few degrees into the wind as the motor yacht rose to a swell which ran down her side in a flowing cascade of phosphorescence . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Was n't above the ground , it were sort a three feet below the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ None whatsoever , ’ he drawled , eyeing the lively antics that were taking place a few yards from them . |