Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 2 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 3 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 4 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 5 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 6 | Some need only a few strokes , others need many . |
| 7 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 8 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
| 9 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 10 | And here is the militant Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani recalling an Arab family 's departure from that same country just a few months later : |