Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he missed the flight by minutes , and a few hours later his father died . |
| 2 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 3 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 4 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 5 | A few days later his body was found at his council house in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Russell 's Water near Henley . |
| 6 | For a few miles initially their anticipation of a beautiful journey is confirmed by lovely surroundings of pastures and woodland as the train passes up the valley of the Ribble with the river in close attendance and friendly green hills rising on both sides of the track . |
| 7 | A few weeks later his article , putatively about my Wellesley talk , appeared . |
| 8 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 9 | A few seconds later her face had gone , as the cloud changed shape then disappeared . |
| 10 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 11 | The portiere , an over-weight , ill-tempered man of sixty , shouted into the courtyard and a few seconds later his grandson Aldo arrived . |
| 12 | A few months previously his name had been included in a list of men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if the awful day ever dawned when Napoleon landed on the south coast . |
| 13 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 14 | Mum and dad are both noted stayers , while a few seasons ago his grandad , I 'm Slippy , roared to victory in the sport 's blue riband event , the Greyhound Derby . |