Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 2 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 3 | If she could get to Bart 's before the day staff had begun their routine , she might be allowed a few moments with Amy . |
| 4 | But they reached the shore a few moments before Lucenzo . |
| 5 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 6 | The only sources so far identified in Europe comprise a few boulders from Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 7 | She recognised a few faces from Amelia 's party , but most of the dead people were strangers . |
| 8 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 9 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 10 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 11 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 12 | Conning a few pounds from Mr Yarrow and walking the streets held little appeal . |
| 13 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 14 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 15 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 16 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 17 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 18 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 19 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 20 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 21 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 22 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 23 | These poltroons seems to think that it 's a big deal to hoist a few pints of Smithwicks after an afternoon spent with their heads stuck up some geezer 's back passes . |
| 24 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 25 | A quick walk down Coronation Street was followed by a few pints of Newton and Ridley Ale before we departed . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
| 27 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 28 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 29 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |
| 30 | He ended up riding a few jumpers in France so its erm although he 's a good trainer now I do n't think he 's an authority and it 's poppycock er frankly . |