Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 2 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
| 3 | Police released a video of the victim 's last Christmas , just a few days before he died … detectives visited every home in Russells Water … the village pond was searched by police frogmen … mounted police were brought in to search the grounds of a nearby National Trust property . |
| 4 | Just a few days before he was due to start the second year of his course , his body was discovered by fire crews in the remains of a barn fire . |
| 5 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 6 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 7 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 8 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |