Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 2 | Cromwell summoned Richard Baxter again a few days later to discuss the subject of liberty of conscience in the presence of most of the Privy Council . |
| 3 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |
| 4 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 5 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 6 | It was once a dairy farm but with the introduction of milk quotas only a few cows are kept now to provide milk , cheese , cream and yogurt . |
| 7 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 8 | To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees . |
| 9 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 10 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 12 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 13 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 14 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 15 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 16 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 17 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 18 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 19 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 20 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 21 | Set among the pine trees just a few yards from the white sandy beach , the hotel has immediate access to all facilities in the Forte Hotel Village , at no extra charge , in addition to its own select amenities . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't believe you know Maximilian Keller , ’ the big man said , making introduction gestures awkwardly a few inches above the surface of the sea , ‘ and Jo-Ann Sills . |
| 23 | President Bush on March 20 vetoed a US$77,500 million tax relief and economic growth bill only a few minutes after Congress completed work on it . |
| 24 | Shiona 's plane touched down at Glasgow airport just a few minutes before midday the following day . |
| 25 | Almost all the countries of Europe except Spain and Ireland started their fertility decline just a few decades after Britain , before the First World War ( Coale and Watkins 1986 ) , even though some ( e.g. Scandinavia ) remained dependent on agriculture , fishing , forestry , and other primary production . |
| 26 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
| 27 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |
| 28 | He was in the public eye again a few months later when the Rolls struck a bull near the Spotted Dog in High Coniscliffe . |
| 29 | We listened to the hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) — we often must do so — and he defended the council tax with all the conviction with which he defended the poll tax just a few months ago . |
| 30 | The sailors stopped digging when the trench was about one foot deep , then they sat down and lit up their cigarettes , gazing around the orchard , taking not the slightest notice of the mortar team just a few yards from them . |