Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 2 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 3 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 4 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 5 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 6 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 7 | We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve . |
| 8 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 9 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 10 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 11 | ‘ But 'er Gran 's only bin dead a few weeks . |
| 12 | You may even push your critical steepness up a few degrees ! |
| 13 | Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road . |
| 14 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 15 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 16 | We hear about budgets in all walks of life , indeed we saw a red box only a few days ago . |
| 17 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
| 18 | The Lacona is set in a tranquil garden which rolls down towards a sheltered sandy beach just a few minutes walk away . |
| 19 | Carter and the Shah met again for the second and final time only a few weeks later , It was New Years Eve in Teheran , Carter was on a hectic world swing and Teheran was a convenient resting place between Warsaw and New Delhi . |
| 20 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 21 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 22 | Since he could not afford to keep her and the boy out of his meagre earnings he drifted away , leaving her to claim supplementary benefit again a few weeks later . |