Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 2 | You 're a garden designer — a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago , if you remember ; I want a garden designed . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , I noted them in my diary only a few hours afterwards . ’ |
| 4 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 5 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 6 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 7 | She stole a final critical glance at her face , mentally awarding herself top marks for skilful covering of the tear-stains which had marred her skin just a few minutes before . |
| 8 | Dorning Town were quick to gain revenge for their defeat here a few weeks ago , by overcoming us 4-O . |
| 9 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 10 | And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son . |
| 11 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | She kept trying to pull herself up , but she could n't get further than lifting her head forward a few inches . |
| 13 | She had discussed it with her father just a few days back . |
| 14 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 15 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 16 | Stopping to pick up her mail from the box on her way out a few days later , she noticed the white envelope with the Andorran postmark straight away . |
| 17 | There had also been rumours that Germany had paid a ransom to get two of their hostages out a few months earlier , and what with Germany breaking ranks , Irangate and now this suspected deal for the French hostages , British newspapers were of full moral outrage at the weakness of other countries and their capitulation in the fight against terrorism . |
| 18 | With four more rounds to go King can not be caught but he was still disappointed when he spoke afterwards about a race during which victory was snatched from his grasp only a few miles from the finish . |
| 19 | Who spent 17 months on the sidelines , scored within 10 minutes of his comeback then a few days later was sidelined again ? |
| 20 | The joys — and the financial rewards — of the instant game had not reached the West Indies when Denness led his troops there a few months later and , as the two sides were drawn in separate groups in the 1975 World Cup , it was 1976 before they met again . |
| 21 | I 've never seen him in a flap , or anything less than pleasant whether dealing with an actor who 's completely shaved his head only a few days before shooting a strict continuity commercial , or calming down the ‘ real ’ Rene Goodman who has rung the Sun to complain that the latest BT commercial takes her name in vain , and people keep asking if she 's getting divorced . |
| 22 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 23 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 24 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 25 | A lot of the women whose benefit was cut off were back on our books again a few weeks later — which suggested either that their relationships had not really been like that of husband and wife , or that our intrusion had broken up what might have become a more lasting union . |
| 26 | Cast your minds back a few weeks . |
| 27 | So it 's er it 's getting very intriguing apparently because in my loft , I am told by a call to our reception just a few moments ago , it 's definitely wasps in my loft . |