Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 2 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 3 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 4 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 5 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 6 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 7 | And just to prove it , he crooned out a few bars in an impressively melodious baritone : ‘ Nice people with nice habits , and got no money at all . ’ |