Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats .
2 In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears .
3 But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ .
4 For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son …
5 In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven .
6 Using a nearby police Constable 's pocket radio he spoke to the Superintendent in charge of the whole tournament operation .
7 A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done .
8 At a hundred feet Peacock 's engine failed .
9 A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology .
10 A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology .
11 ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan .
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