Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 2 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 3 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 4 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 5 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
| 6 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 7 | The pirate died first , then Hunter only a few hours later . |
| 8 | She had met Luke Hunter only a few days earlier . |
| 9 | Cromwell summoned Richard Baxter again a few days later to discuss the subject of liberty of conscience in the presence of most of the Privy Council . |
| 10 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
| 11 | And Colin finished up just down here on the pavement and Keith maybe a few yards further down er with very bad injuries . |
| 12 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 13 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago . |