Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 2 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 6 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 9 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 10 | Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road . |
| 11 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 12 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 13 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days . |