Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " 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 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
6 | Then Carter went on to add phrase that was to haunt him as , only a few weeks later riots and disaffection began to unfold across the country and within twelve months led to the fall of the Shah . |
7 | Only a few weeks ago things had seemed bleak , but now the board was filling nicely with his plays . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
11 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
12 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
13 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
14 | Just a few days later baby Joe was born , weighing just four and three quarter pounds , but healthy ; living proof that rhesus babies now have the chance they deserve . |
15 | Just a few weeks ago Safet was re-united with his mother , wife , and the daughter he had never seen , Emina . |
16 | But just a few weeks ago Keith Atkinson from Malvern in Worcestershire won the right to sue Oxfordshire Health Authority . |
17 | ‘ I was amazed , I could get to places with cameras which just a few years ago Russians would n't have been allowed to visit , ’ he said . |
18 | Coincidentally a few days later reporters of the tabloid press began to gather outside his flat , questioning him every time he entered or left . |
19 | Maybe a few years ago people would have disapproved . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 … |