Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 2 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 3 | It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . |
| 4 | But , remember , it 's only a few months since I won in Barcelona . ’ |
| 5 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 6 | ‘ Just a few weeks after I left the ship it was sunk by our own Typhoon fighters with the loss of 56 lives , ’ said Mr Connor , whose son , Paul , saw front-line action as a medic in the Gulf War . |