Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WARRENDER fitness instructor , gives Citizen readers a few tips on how to trim up for the summer . |
| 2 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 3 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 4 | You can help this fall in body temperature by being inactive all evening ( sitting in front of the television ? ) , but if you are quite active physically then you can maintain a sense of comfort if you turn down your room thermostat a few degrees in the evening or if you roll up your sleeves and aid heat loss this way . |
| 5 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 6 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |
| 7 | I felt sorry fer 'er Ernie. 'E come 'ome that night wiv a few drinks inside 'im an' 'im an' Maudie got at it . |
| 8 | But before they had reached the back gate a few drops of rain had already plopped warningly on their heads . |
| 9 | Secondary double-glazing involves the fitting of a wooden or plastic frame a few inches inside your existing window and slotting in sliding panes of glass or non-glass . |
| 10 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 11 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 12 | The weather , observed at Goose Bay Airport a few minutes after the accident , was scattered cloud at 800 feet , overcast cloud at 3,400 feet , visibility ten miles , temperature 54°F , dewpoint 53° F and the wind 325° M at seven knots . |
| 13 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 14 | In fact he reckons you 'll save us and Kent County Council a few quid by doing so . ’ |
| 15 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 16 | He studied a restaurant menu a few doors along feeling confused and angry at his confusion . |
| 17 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 18 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |
| 19 | The men were waiting for Karen in a hotel room a few miles from the accident . |
| 20 | After release the pigeon circles a few times around the release site for a few minutes and then flies off , usually in the approximate direction of its home loft . |
| 21 | Without going into calculations , virtually any realistic combination of antenna size and power at the feed will result in a power flux density a few metres in front of the dish of less than 10mW per square centimetre — the nationally accepted long-term human exposure level for electromagnetic radiation . |