Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
2 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
3 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
4 | Machines that were seen to be at the forefront of technology just a few years ago are now readily replaced and cast-off with little or no second-hand value . |
5 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
6 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |