Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 2 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 3 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 4 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 5 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just in for a few tests , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 8 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
| 9 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 10 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 11 | And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide ’ T-shirts and hard hats . |