Example sentences of "a [noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 3 | A decision a few weeks ago to change engine suppliers almost instantly brought a revival in Jonny 's fortunes . |
| 4 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 5 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 6 | Ziba 's 35-year-old brother , Meho , who worked at the dairy and fought with the Sarajevo defence force , had been killed during the night in a skirmish a few blocks away . |
| 7 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 8 | It 's heartening to see what a change a few weeks can bring . |
| 9 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | The two were less than two centuries apart , but it brings back to mind Flecker 's verses To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence , which ends : |
| 11 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 12 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 13 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 14 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 15 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 16 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 17 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 18 | For a child a hundred years ago , the family was likely to be an extended one , including aunts , uncles , cousins and grandparents as well as parents and siblings . |
| 19 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 20 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 21 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 22 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 23 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 24 | Liszt greatly admired him , and Rubenstein , too , commended Field to his pupils as ‘ a perfectionist who would practise a passage a thousand times . ’ |
| 25 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 26 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 27 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 28 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 29 | When you 've botched a job a dozen times you do n't hang around waiting to try one more time , you abandon it . |
| 30 | Yes we had a meeting a few weeks ago to discuss the future and it was agreed that we should have three issues a year rather than four , I think this would be welcomed by local police stations got ta change the dates to act on market research which indicates certain months when certain security devices sell well . |