Example sentences of "a few [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later a barge hove into view . |
| 2 | A few moments later the other followed . |
| 3 | And when a few moments later the telephone goes , and the gas man says that he wo n't after all be coming today to service the boiler , he gets his head bitten off ! |
| 4 | Sarah watched for a few moments when the game began , then went off to look for her Nature treasures . |
| 5 | For a few moments more the warlock held his/her shape and Jaq almost despaired . |
| 6 | Indeed they have suggested a few areas where the pattern recogniser seems quite weak . |
| 7 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 8 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 9 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 10 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 11 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 12 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 13 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 14 | Those who did marry all left the trade , except for a few cases where the husband was a serving soldier abroad during the war . |
| 15 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 16 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 17 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 18 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 21 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 22 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 23 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
| 24 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
| 25 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
| 26 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
| 27 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
| 28 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
| 29 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
| 30 | A recent view is that a postsynaptic kinase is activated transiently ( for less than a few minutes following the tetanus ) and a presynaptic kinase is activated for longer periods ( but for less than 1 hour ) . |