Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not set a few moments aside first thing in the morning and last thing at night ? |
| 2 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 3 | A few hours later famed attorney to the stars Jerry Geisler was called in to defend Mitchum and warned him to say nothing more . |
| 4 | It was a time in 1941 that he will not forget as a few hours later fifteen year old Tom witnessed the ‘ Clydebank Blitz . ’ |
| 5 | A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible . |
| 6 | Those who missed it should start putting a few pennies away each week from now on and book the second weekend in September in their advance diaries , so that they have no excuse to miss Keele 1994 . |
| 7 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 8 | HE 'S DOING a few things differently this time ; he says the album was recorded in a shed and he 's used waste metal for percussion , but elsewhere he 's shuffled further down memory lane . |
| 9 | These are just a few examples where public expenditure in the social services has direct implications for a number of private enterprises and , through them , for the entire national economy . |
| 10 | During vacations a doctor will attend the Health Centre for a few sessions only each week . |
| 11 | A few years ago one writer described a particularly difficult winter ascent of Wildboar Clough as ‘ The second worst journey in the world . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 13 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 14 | ‘ A few years ago this sort of equipment was found only in the big teaching centres but now it is the sort of equipment that is a basic requirement of a district general hospital , ’ he said . |
| 15 | A few years ago this game was used in evidence for a players ' international quality , but there is so much serious , competitive rugby now that a post-Christmas frolic is not rated in assessing credentials . |
| 16 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 17 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 18 | A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles … |
| 19 | Within a few years over 800 exchange lines and 300 private lines were in use operating from the new headquarters of the amalgamated telephone companies , the National Telephone Company Headquarters at 13 Royal Exchange Square . |
| 20 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 21 | A few miles away another motorist was killed after a pile-up on the A38 , which feeds onto the M1 at junction 28 , following a crash which involved 20 vehicles . |
| 22 | Normally this is only a minor irritation ( unless the controller suffers from migraine ) , and a few seconds later another transmission sorts the whole thing out . |
| 23 | Just a few seconds out either way in a live production can lead to a jump-in mid-scene or an embarrassed pause on the studio floor while the film is run up . |
| 24 | A few months later that piece of old scrap had become the basis of a mainly timber-built , chain-driven model motor car , on the lines of the bull-nosed Morris Cowley with a rounded back . |
| 25 | Woods seems to assume in the passage cited above that there are only a few regions where high quality accidental word matches take place . |