Example sentences of "[adj] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 2 | He did this a few times before he realised the result would always be the same . |
| 3 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 4 | Gurder gave this a few moments ' careful and terrified thought . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 6 | They followed this a few days later by a two-pronged push , one prong spearing towards the Bostan-al-Amarah area and the other towards Ali al-Gharbi on the Baghdad-Basrah road , meeting some success in occupying heights overlooking the town . |
| 7 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 8 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 9 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 10 | ‘ I photocopied this a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 12 | They , they 'd beat Arsenal in more recent years in erm in the Milk Cup at Arsenal , that was very exciting a few years ago . |
| 13 | Her dark blonde hair was cut into a short , feathery style , which had been popular a few years ago . |
| 14 | He actually had the ball in the net in the first half : City were playing a very boring offside game , Whelan thought he 'd got free a few yards inside the city half , but with Coton bearing down on him , he was judged offside . |
| 15 | But erm anyway that 's it 's all it 's all now a few a few months ago . |
| 16 | You 've had few a few callers today Rod yeah ? |
| 17 | Some a few feet tall others up to 18 feet . |
| 18 | For example , I was very embarrassed a few years ago when all his hoo-ha came out about this erm bishop who was getting this marvellous mansion in the country , and I thought to myself I 'm not totally sure whether this is right . |
| 19 | Waterskiing already takes place in lake 105 a few yards from the contested area . |
| 20 | Whether that renaissance ever really occurred seems very doubtful a few years on — the issues at the centre of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge continue to be debated but usually with little reference to his work . |
| 21 | 2 A few professors are available to provide the anti-genetic arguments . |
| 22 | He seemed so old a few minutes ago and now he 's like a little kid again . |
| 23 | It all looked very different a few years ago . |
| 24 | Though I missed the engagement party of my young Sheikh , I attended another a few years later . |
| 25 | There followed an explosion , and another a few seconds later . |
| 26 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |
| 27 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 28 | We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items . |
| 29 | Pages that had seemed worthless a few days before were now pored over , in the hope that they 'd yield some clue , encoded in the fanciful excesses of Chant 's idiosyncratic and ill-punctuated prose , that would lead him to some fresh comprehension of the times and their movers . |
| 30 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |