Example sentences of "[coord] in a few [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers .
2 It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore .
3 The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly .
4 But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions .
5 But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above .
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