Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust , heading down towards the charcoal city . |
| 2 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 3 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 4 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 5 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 6 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 7 | A few minutes later the elderly owner of ‘ Primrose Cottage ’ was on the phone . |
| 8 | He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag . |
| 9 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 10 | One of two possible methods is to divide off one end of the tank using a clear divider and install the new fish into the smaller section , after a few days when the other occupants of the tank have accepted the newcomer then remove the divider and let all of the fish mix . |
| 11 | A few days later the victorious army entered Addis Ababa and paraded before the Empress Zauditu on Jan Meda , that great open space where Menelik had reviewed his troops . |
| 12 | But a few days later the Soviet Government organ admitted that ‘ possibly neutralisation would be conducive to the creation of a system of collective security in Asia ’ and that ‘ the proposal for this system is cherished by all those who seek the normalisation of the situation in Asia ’ . |
| 13 | A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike . |
| 14 | A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing , with the greatest of ease . |
| 15 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 16 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 17 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 18 | A few years ago the French would come through the tunnel for an evening at Filippo 's , said Gioachino . |
| 19 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 20 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 21 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 22 | A few weeks later the same court in Rex v. Grant [ 1936 ] 2 All E.R. |
| 23 | A few weeks later the same thing happened . |
| 24 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 25 | She rang the bell , and a few seconds later the bent , withered figure of Jamie Shepherd appeared . |
| 26 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 27 | A few months later the same man , with his daughter , met Russell at a petrol station . |
| 28 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |