Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection .
2 Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five .
3 Back on the A34 we circled a roundabout a few times to test the road-holding .
4 Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 .
5 Yes we had a meeting a few weeks ago to discuss the future and it was agreed that we should have three issues a year rather than four , I think this would be welcomed by local police stations got ta change the dates to act on market research which indicates certain months when certain security devices sell well .
6 He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre .
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