Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 2 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 3 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 4 | Zach , Tom discovered , was a voluble , curly-haired boy a few months older than Willie , only taller and in bad need , so he thought , of a haircut . |
| 5 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 6 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 7 | In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula . |
| 8 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 9 | She completed the course a few pounds heavier and clutching a diploma for her efforts . |
| 10 | By the power of Numbskull , Jason , thou truly art a few Brontoburgers short of a picnic ! |
| 11 | Her portion had been painted apricot , its front door a few tones darker than its walls . |
| 12 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |
| 13 | It 's like bits of a film — I have only fragments , each image a few seconds long . |
| 14 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
| 15 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |