Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
2 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
3 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
4 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
5 | Gary felt it was right to pray about this and share his thoughts not only with God but with a few close brothers and sisters in Christ . |
6 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
7 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
8 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
9 | The Committee recognised that the greatest public concern had arisen as a consequence of the ‘ presence and the visible and obvious presence of prostitutes in considerable numbers in the public streets of some parts of London and of a few provincial towns ’ . |
10 | The A850 , having come north from Broadford , leaves Portree for the north-west of Skye and after a few miles , just beyond the standing stones by Borve , splits into the A856 . |
11 | The peak of production was reached between 1850 and 1875 , during which period up to 200 men and women were employed in the trade , mainly in Mauchline but with a few in neighbouring villages . |