Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] moments " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet their death by chainsaw took only a few moments . |
| 2 | Since martial law was imposed , with army checkposts everywhere , and a heavy plainclothes police presence , protests last only a few moments . |
| 3 | Only a few moments later , a pew gave way under the weight of so many people sitting on it . |
| 4 | This suggests that although the blast that killed them was intensely hot , it lasted only a few moments , not long enough to ignite fabrics . |
| 5 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |
| 6 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 7 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 8 | Like Trevor , when the other person 's tension breaks and the anger bursts , do you feel any satisfaction or relief within yourself , even for only a few moments ? |
| 9 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 10 | Only a few moments later he is being sympathetic with Cassio — ‘ What , are you hurt , lieutenant ? … |
| 11 | This is due to the fact that if there is no insider dealing ‘ those who transact only a few moments apart may get very different prices and will view the market as performing unfairly ’ . |
| 12 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll come , ’ said Karr , but he was gone only a few moments . |
| 14 | It needed only a few moments , and a touch of magi-glue , to insert the cylinder as par of the pedestal . |
| 15 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 16 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 17 | That lasted for only a few moments ; it was a perfect death . |
| 18 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 19 | Oh , it 's no distance at all up by the path , only a few moments … yes … |
| 20 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 21 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 22 | He went to the kitchen and asked if the nurse would be so kind as to wait , just a few moments , and he was out of the room before she could tell him how tight her schedule was . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In just a few moments you can see how much easier your working life could become . |
| 25 | In fact , now you 've rumbled me , may I , would you mind if I postponed the coffee just a few moments more ? ’ |
| 26 | Can you give me just a few moments ? |
| 27 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 28 | Well they had the information that you will hear in due course , in just a few moments , from the caller . |
| 29 | But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I 've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency . ’ |
| 30 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |