Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 2 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 3 | A few years ago no … came away from Pontypool without a few bruises and a thorough beating by the famous front row … those days have long gone … |
| 4 | Remaisnil itself is but a hamlet of five or six cottages , a few alleyways and a simple parish church to serve its sixty-five inhabitants . |
| 5 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 6 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 7 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 8 | He struggled through a few games but a swollen knee indicated his problems were not over . |
| 9 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 10 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 11 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
| 12 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 13 | Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca . |
| 14 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 15 | A pile of white kandoras , a pile of head scarves , a pile of wezaar , an extra black braided circlet , a few underpants and an extra pair of sandals . |
| 16 | You can expect a few difficulties and the occasional setback . |
| 17 | Women were just becoming visible in men 's researches : meriting a few pages or a special chapter ( Nichols and Armstrong , 1976 ) . |
| 18 | Answer : A few cents for the new bulb plus — the odd tree killed by acid rain ; a small rise in global temperatures from carbon dioxide emissions ; a proportion of the ecological disasters caused by marine oil spillages ; and the occasional nuclear accident . |
| 19 | So why could Dr Neil , with a few words and a sidelong look , lance her indignation so easily , compel her to reassess herself and life ? |
| 20 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 21 | Patients have a sore throat for a few days but no other side effects . |
| 22 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 23 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 24 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 26 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 27 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |
| 28 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 29 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
| 30 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |