Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 2 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 4 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |
| 5 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 6 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 7 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 8 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 9 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 10 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 11 | It is better to lose a steady two or three pounds a week than to achieve a drastic weight loss more dramatically , only to replace the lost pounds a few months later . |
| 12 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 13 | At the inevitable inquest a few weeks later which , mercifully , thanks to Edna 's and Bert 's discretion , the appalling weather and her own reclusive way of life , was held almost in private , she sat in the court , her head bowed , her once handsome face lined and drawn . |
| 14 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 15 | And yet , despite his obvious distress , this man had not even tried to save his nephew other than , through his lamentable dithering , allowing the poor child a few more days of life . |
| 16 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
| 17 | If possible , take the older fish out , add the new ones and return the older fish a few days later … then they become the new ones . |
| 18 | Though the majority occur near the tracheal bifurcation a few may be found several centimetres from this area ( Fig. 43 ) . |
| 19 | They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive . |
| 20 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 21 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 22 | Very occasionally in going beyond the immediate subject a few minor errors have crept in , but no one else could have told the main story in so authoritative a fashion . |
| 23 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 24 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 25 | One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar . |
| 26 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 27 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | At the same time a few modifications were made to bring these cars into line with standard practices , for example , the positions of the route board holders under the saloon windows were slightly altered to take L.C.C . |
| 29 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 30 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |