Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [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 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 6 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had met Luke Hunter only a few days earlier . |