Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 2 | And Oxford , since bringing in 20 year old Ian Gardiner to stroke position just a few weeks ago , are now edging ahead as favourites . |
| 3 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
| 4 | We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’ |
| 5 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 6 | The last exchange of messages took place only a few seconds later when the tower asked the height of the aircraft ; on receiving the reply " 1,400 on the QNH " the tower controller observed : " I think you are to the south of the field " . |
| 7 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 8 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 9 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
| 10 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 11 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 12 | Single-mode fibres also operate at 1.3 micrometres , but they have cores only a few micrometers across . |