Example sentences of "on [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something .
2 In addition , checks by waste disposal authorities are almost impossible to effect , owing to the fact that lorry loads of waste arrive on site every few minutes , are dumped and the tip is covered over at the end of the day .
3 Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep .
4 Even the Euro-sceptical Mr Lamont has shifted the official line on EMU a few inches .
5 Their first cassette , ‘ Live in the City ’ , was released on CD a few months ago .
6 The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before .
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