Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 2 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 3 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 4 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 5 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 6 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 7 | Some need only a few strokes , others need many . |
| 8 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 9 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 10 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 11 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 12 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 13 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 14 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 15 | We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve . |
| 16 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
| 17 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 20 | Turn right after 1/2 mile into Kyber car park , then turn left after 30 yds through gate ( but first detour ahead a few yards for view of Glasgow ) on track signposted Craigend Castle ( a ) . |
| 21 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ But 'er Gran 's only bin dead a few weeks . |
| 23 | You may even push your critical steepness up a few degrees ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 26 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 27 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 28 | We hear about budgets in all walks of life , indeed we saw a red box only a few days ago . |
| 29 | And here is the militant Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani recalling an Arab family 's departure from that same country just a few months later : |
| 30 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |