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 . |