Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 2 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 4 | Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days . |
| 5 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 6 | Davies , once described fondly by a former captain of Wasps , Alan Black , as the clown prince of rugby , said enigmatically afterwards that every dog had his day . |
| 7 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 8 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |