Example sentences of "a few [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later a barge hove into view . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 6 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 9 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 10 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 11 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |
| 12 | A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch . |
| 13 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 14 | Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin . |
| 15 | A few days later a group of nobles keen to impress Aurangzeb broke into the quarters where Dara was being kept , a small garden outside the walls of Shahjehanabad towards Nizamuddin . |
| 16 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 17 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 18 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 19 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 20 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 21 | Occasionally the enquiry becomes public knowledge ; a few years ago a copy of the authority for an enquiry into a well-known high street retailer appeared on the front page of a national newspaper . |
| 22 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 23 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 24 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 25 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ After I lost my keys a few weeks ago a locksmith replaced the tumblers but it was n't enough to stop the door being opened . |
| 27 | There was a hush for a few seconds then a roar from the French civilians , men , women and children , ‘ Encore , encore , encore , Tommy . ’ |
| 28 | A few months ago a newspaper carried the story of a couple who had created a garden — now to be opened to the public — during the years that they were housebound , caring for sick relatives . |
| 29 | A few months later a shuttle carried Jaq up to a great black ship circling in orbit . |
| 30 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |