Example sentences of "[adv] a [det] " in BNC.

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1 The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago .
2 The IBA has been particularly active in relation to programmes about Northern Ireland , and its interference has ranged from banning an entire programme ( eg a This Week report about RUC brutality ) to cutting provocative scenes lasting a few seconds ( such as pictures of flowers on an IRA grave ) .
3 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
4 If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times .
5 Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz .
6 The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
7 The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
8 At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’
9 I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return .
10 Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago .
11 We have all become used to matching colours in the home , and perhaps a little colour co-ordination in the garden would not go amiss .
12 Perhaps a little money would make her festive season easier to endure .
13 We have perhaps a little time .
14 A picture , probably ; she had always admired his work , perhaps a little money to go with it ; that would be welcome .
15 This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later .
16 ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens .
17 The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general .
18 The whole process is slow — perhaps a few months — but can be very quick in real emergencies .
19 perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ?
20 Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider .
21 No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure .
22 You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science .
23 Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject .
24 DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss .
25 This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC .
26 Perhaps a few ; it will do no harm , ’ she said soothingly .
27 I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes .
28 Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters .
29 But animals , to varying degrees , employ all the senses available to human beings , with perhaps a few extra ones , and often with a far greater range of sensitivity .
30 Well perhaps a few , well-intentioned people like Jesse Helms [ the senator who criticised the NEA vigorously for allocating public funds to pornographic and blasphemous art ] might have said these things are disgusting .
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