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 For a few moments more the warlock held his/her shape and Jaq almost despaired .
5 A few hours later the verdict was in .
6 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 .
7 A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor .
8 She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence .
9 Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up .
10 Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville .
11 So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing .
12 As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me .
13 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 .
14 But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair .
15 A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion .
16 A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre .
17 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 .
18 A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him .
19 A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out .
20 A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home .
21 A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings .
22 A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned .
23 A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley .
24 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 ) .
25 After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag .
26 A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway .
27 There were a few tears even the obstetrician seemed a bit overcome and kept shaking my hand .
28 A few feet away the corridor opened into a new space .
29 A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch .
30 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 .
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