Sentence:  Cardboard noisemakers , substitutes for the unavailable tin models , were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every <WSD>few</WSD> yards along Broadway , and one 's ears were continually serenaded by the horns ' rasps and bleats . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number