Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 2 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 5 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 6 | Shiona 's plane touched down at Glasgow airport just a few minutes before midday the following day . |
| 7 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
| 8 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |