Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're a garden designer — a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago , if you remember ; I want a garden designed . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had discussed it with her father just a few days back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 11 | 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 . |