Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |
| 2 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 3 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
| 5 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 6 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 7 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 8 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 9 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |