Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 2 | Only a few reports concerned the fate of oesophagitis , and then with relatively short follow up , although the typical patient is young or middle aged and thus has a life expectancy of several decades . |
| 3 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 4 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 5 | A few stars pricked the sky , and in the warmth of the car it seemed that she and Luke were the only two people in the world , travelling through a hushed darkness together . |
| 6 | A few replies contained the comment that families were sometimes reluctant to reveal information to their doctor . |
| 7 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |
| 8 | A few dealers accepted the fines as a matter of course , especially as accumulated funds got spent on drinks for everybody in the local pub on Friday night . |
| 9 | A few schools used the Minor award to take on " major " challenges , while two were successful in receiving additional project funds in a subsequent year , presumably an acknowledgement that the initial diagnosis of their need was only partially informed . |
| 10 | A few schools mentioned the expanding remit of senior staff as ‘ a worrying situation ’ and implications for staff development of the co-ordinator were also raised : |
| 11 | Some royal mortuary cults were maintained for longer than others and a few kings became the subject of special worship , amongst whom were Amenophis I with his mother queen Ahmose-Nefertari as patron gods of the Theban necropolis , Sesostris III in Nubia , Amenemhat III in the Fayum , Amenophis III at Soleb , and Ramesses II at Abu Simbel and as patron of soldiers in the East Delta . |
| 12 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |