Example sentences of "a [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 2 | A decision a few weeks ago to change engine suppliers almost instantly brought a revival in Jonny 's fortunes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 7 | It 's heartening to see what a change a few weeks can bring . |
| 8 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 12 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 15 | Then Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which Mr Mason made at a lunch a few weeks earlier . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | and in October he moved down to Shamley Green , a village a few miles outside Guildford and within commuting distance of London . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 23 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Tabor , named from a hill a few miles from Bethlehem , was founded in 1420 by the Taborites , the radical wing of the Hussite movement . |
| 26 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 27 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 28 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 29 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 30 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |