The phrase "a girlfriend from a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are specifying the origin or source of the girlfriend, but it needs to be followed by additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "I met a girlfriend from a local club during the event last night."
Alternatives: "a girlfriend from my past" or "a girlfriend from college".
After beginning with Foam Corner-like comments about a character called Pianu Reeves, Wittels went on to explain that he had begun taking drugs when he was 12 and that he had lately become depressed over the end of a relationship with a girlfriend from a family of Scientologists – "I could take a pill, I could relax, and everything was fine".
Completing the cycle, for now, is "Photographic Memory," a film largely about aging, in which Mr. McElwee goes to France to track down a mentor and a girlfriend from a long-ago visit — an engaging piece of vérité detective work — while agonizing about his inability to get along with his teenage son.
Aspas is a Celta fan who says that never mind playing for fierce rivals Deportivo de La Coruña he would not even have a girlfriend from A Coruña – although that might be because no self-respecting girl from there would go out with a Celta player.
He has a flat in Chelsea and a girlfriend from Worcestershire who has forgiven him his exotic name.
"I stopped for a drink with a girlfriend from work," she said, and giggled when I gasped.
That man knew that a girlfriend from his teenage years had borne a boy, but he said he understood he was not the father.
Before they learned he was listed in the abuse database, the boy's biggest hurdles were those of any other teenager: abiding by a bedtime and choosing a girlfriend from the flock of girls who call him.
But at least you didn't have to put up with gossip mag intrusion … I had a little flat with a girlfriend from Sheffield when we first moved to London.
"For me, down here now, it's like revisiting a girlfriend from high school," he said.
In the case of Gennifer Flowers, a girlfriend from the Arkansas years, he admitted a single lapse, but when asked if he had been having a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he said no, an answer he claims is somehow narrowly and technically true.
