Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] his [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 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 3 | A few days later his body was found at his council house in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Russell 's Water near Henley . |
| 4 | A few weeks later his article , putatively about my Wellesley talk , appeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The portiere , an over-weight , ill-tempered man of sixty , shouted into the courtyard and a few seconds later his grandson Aldo arrived . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |