Example sentences of "[vb past] a [det] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 2 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 3 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 4 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 5 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 6 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 7 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |
| 8 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 9 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 10 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |