Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago . |
| 2 | That Jesus 's entry into Jerusalem was fraught with political implications becomes evident in the Gospels a few days later . |
| 3 | The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature . |
| 4 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen his name in the papers a few times , ’ murmured the superintendent , whose forehead creased with puzzlement . |
| 6 | There 's no need to use it if the river 's not in spate , since you can just as easily hop over some stones in the shallows a few yards further upstream . |