Example sentences of "[verb] in a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 2 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 3 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 4 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 5 | The curtains bowed in a few yards away , almost touching the window-sill , the movement like a wave . |
| 6 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 7 | It was left to Unix System Labs to step in a few weeks later and take the reins of ANDF by licensing the Ten15 technology from DRA , saying it would productise ANDF in a future release of its Unix SVR4.2 operating system ( UX No 390 ) , see front page . |
| 8 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |