Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Bernice staggered a few steps forward .
2 Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement .
3 The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished .
4 Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other .
5 Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later .
6 A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage .
7 However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn .
8 In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before .
9 SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ .
10 Later that month , the former Rangers and Scotland forward Andy Cunningham was appointed manager of Newcastle and although he had played alongside Gallacher in the Scotland team a few years before , there was no great bond between the two .
11 After a while Bambi and Nell returned alone , and Bambi with an unexcited word of gratitude to Nell walked a few paces forward and stopped beside her son , who had done nothing to comfort or help his sister and was now sitting alone .
12 Rincewind took a few steps forward , cupidity moving him as easily as if he were on little wheels .
13 Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides .
14 The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously .
15 He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ .
16 There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier .
17 ‘ … and homicide Lieutenant Wilson stated a few minutes ago that the police are closing in .
18 The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ .
19 When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album .
20 When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche .
21 Dr Ali moved a few paces away from him .
22 Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements .
23 They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later .
24 That 's what the bosses of master brewer Guinness did a few years ago .
25 She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet .
26 Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border .
27 Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there …
28 Their destination , Sandy discovered a few minutes later , was the Liston Hall boat house .
29 Wadi Halfa lay a few miles inland .
30 No one , to my knowledge , attempted to press charges of deception against the BBC for its reporters ' filming tactics in the series Black and White Britain screened a few years ago .
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