Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days .
2 Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out .
3 So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days .
4 … and how many flats have gone to blacks in just the last few years ?
5 But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively .
6 A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more .
7 I hope she is still around for quite a few more years . ’
8 So anyway , that was it , you had to go to your branch and complain , make your protest in writing , see , and the branch secretary would reply to your letter okay , And they 'd ask for maybe a few more details about the complaint .
9 We plan to launch at least a dozen more agencies in April , when 50 per cent .
10 The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane .
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