Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
2 | Only a few pages later Freud withdraws his connection between the ego instincts and the death aims of those instincts which seem to push towards the death of the organism . |
3 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
4 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
5 | And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police . |
6 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
7 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
8 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
9 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
10 | Just a few weeks ago Safet was re-united with his mother , wife , and the daughter he had never seen , Emina . |
11 | But just a few weeks ago Keith Atkinson from Malvern in Worcestershire won the right to sue Oxfordshire Health Authority . |
12 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
13 | Cooper took out Base 's off stump and then a few balls later Courtney Walsh wrapped things up and derbyshire were all out for 521 … |