Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 2 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 3 | When Eva took some of her black students to play the tambourine at a big meeting in Salisbury it raised quite a few eyebrows and temperatures . |
| 4 | It needed only a few moments , and a touch of magi-glue , to insert the cylinder as par of the pedestal . |
| 5 | er , but it needed quite a few repairs doing to it |
| 6 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 7 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 8 | It took only a few minutes to pack their belongings . |
| 9 | It took only a few minutes for the Doctor to break down and analyse the strangely oily powder , using the lateral molecular rectifier to be absolutely certain . |
| 10 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
| 11 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 12 | It took only a few seconds to order six droids and a goods transporter to the 65th level cargo bay . |
| 13 | It took only a few seconds for Benny to rush on and spot her unknowing guides . |
| 14 | This suggests that although the blast that killed them was intensely hot , it lasted only a few moments , not long enough to ignite fabrics . |
| 15 | A short downpour drenched us , but it lasted only a few minutes . |
| 16 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 17 | It lasted only a few seconds , vivid enough to temporarily subdue any discord until their habitual attitudes towards each other slid into place again . |