Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] a few " in BNC.
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1 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
2 | Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later . |
3 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
4 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
5 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
6 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
7 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |