Example sentences of "[det] [noun] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 2 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 3 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 4 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 5 | When recounting this story to some friends a few weeks ago , one of them added : ‘ Well , even that has changed . |
| 6 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 7 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 8 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 9 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 10 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 11 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 12 | It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg . |
| 13 | That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this . |
| 14 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 15 | . Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced the Channel Tunnel has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers , and after that incident a few weeks ago , which was er certainly played down by the authorities , I wonder just how safe the Tunnel is . |
| 16 | Madam Deputy Speaker : As the hon. Gentleman knows , the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) raised a point of order on that matter a few moments ago — but as the hon. Member for Falkirk , East represents the constituency concerned , it is understandable that he wants to raise it again , and in a most helpful manner . |
| 17 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 18 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 19 | One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar . |
| 20 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 21 | We took us caravan up that way a few years ago I ca n't remember s what it called s sa what they call the men up there ? |
| 22 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |