Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 2 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 3 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 4 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 5 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 8 | Of the many species of Dictyonema only a few have a colony as regular in shape as this one , which can grow to a length of more than 20 cm . |
| 9 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 10 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
| 11 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 12 | These contain layers of Gallium Arsenide only a few atoms thick and are supplied by Sheffield University . |
| 13 | They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone . |
| 14 | The lot cost Joe only a few bob . |
| 15 | The pirate died first , then Hunter only a few hours later . |
| 16 | She had met Luke Hunter only a few days earlier . |
| 17 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
| 18 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
| 19 | Cromwell summoned Richard Baxter again a few days later to discuss the subject of liberty of conscience in the presence of most of the Privy Council . |
| 20 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
| 21 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 22 | And Colin finished up just down here on the pavement and Keith maybe a few yards further down er with very bad injuries . |
| 23 | It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here . |
| 24 | It was thought that he would be able to rest better during the day when the unit switched to night shooting , but daughter Emma only a few weeks old — had other ideas . |
| 25 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 26 | In 1989 , living in a motel between Santa Cruz and Watsonville only a few miles from the epicentre of the Loma Prieta earthquake , I had walked with Frank Bardacke in its aftermath down the streets of Watsonville and counted score and score of the old Maybeck homes , tossed off their piers , broken-backed , red-tagged , finished . |
| 27 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |
| 28 | My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago . |
| 29 | In Vienna quite a few of them had gone around in a crowd together , boys and girls . |