Example sentences of "[adv] a [det] [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 2 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 3 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 4 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 5 | Only a few weeks ago the Swanage Railway was in some difficulty providing steam locomotives with sufficient power . |
| 6 | Only a few months earlier the USDOE had decided that the prospect of nuclear fusion by the ‘ conventional ’ route was still too many years away to meet the Pentagon 's urgent needs for tritium . |
| 7 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 8 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 9 | Why , just a few generations ago the grandparents of this trumped-up charlatan blossomed and grew in orchards that attracted humans and animals alike with the sweet scent of fruit as it hung from the boughs . |
| 10 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 11 | And just a few weeks ago the man he found , Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz electrified the finance ministers of the developed world with a seven-page plan to ‘ transform the Polish economy into a market economy ’ . |
| 12 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 13 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 14 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 15 | Well a few weeks ago the city fathers installed dose nasty little tings at a cost , believe it or not , sir , of some turty tree tousand pounds , and the day atterwards dey declared the whole area a no waiting zone . ’ |
| 16 | I hear the front door of the flat open and close , then a few seconds later the door to my room opens . |