Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening a few days later , Gabriel went to find his mistress . |
| 2 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ One night a few months ago — early spring it was … ’ |
| 4 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 5 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
| 6 | Sufficient of these were at night for there to be , on average , one movement every few minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 8 | One man a few yards ahead of Dexter turned to a colleague and muttered , ‘ Bonking in the viewing room , eh ? ’ with a smutty chuckle . |
| 9 | An old woman with a hunched-up back and a walking-stick was beckoning to her with one hand a few yards away . |
| 10 | It is not a bad idea to change one agency every few years . |
| 11 | I saw an example of the results of prayerful fasting when I visited Um Hamed one Ramadan a few years later . |