Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During vacations a doctor will attend the Health Centre for a few sessions only each week . |
| 6 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A few years ago any self respecting farmer would have been ashamed of this field , with its bumper crop of nettles and thistles … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |