Example sentences of "the [noun] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw the board a few weeks ago , when I — ‘ |
| 3 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 4 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 5 | No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening |
| 6 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 7 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 8 | Make , make the resistance a hundred times what it was you 'd only get a hundredth of the current . |
| 9 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 10 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 11 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 12 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 13 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 14 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 15 | Her friend 's well-known bluntness had been to the fore a few days ago , when she 'd discovered Laura sobbing quietly in her bedroom . |
| 16 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 17 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 18 | The circular free-standing columns in natural Lambshill heavily grained sandstone at the main entrance , and the wet dash render and reconstituted Cumbrian slate finish on the mansard roof , combine to give the building a traditional Scottish feel . |
| 19 | Before they could reach him , however , he was borne aloft like a javelin and carried to the quayside a few yards away where he was dumped unceremoniously into the murky waters to a great cheer from those who were close enough to witness the event . |
| 20 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 21 | Those who are born in the Third World have a considerably smaller chance of surviving childhood than those born here — and the same was true of those born in the West a hundred years ago . |
| 22 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |
| 23 | She completed the course a few pounds heavier and clutching a diploma for her efforts . |
| 24 | He went on the course a few weeks later , two days in a hotel conference room which smelt of stale cigar smoke and small successes . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago . |
| 26 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 27 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
| 28 | When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s . |
| 29 | The other humans said something , and the box was cautiously put down on the gravel a few feet from Masklin . |
| 30 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |