Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 32 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |
| 33 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 34 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 35 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 36 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 37 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 38 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 39 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
| 40 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 41 | He rested for a few minutes , before pushing himself on . |
| 42 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 43 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 44 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 45 | He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced , then turned into the supper room . |
| 46 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 47 | The congregation of St Nicholas consisted of a few poor people from the neighbourhood and otherwise of less poor people from various parts of the city or from Birkenhead across the Mersey . |
| 48 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
| 49 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 50 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |
| 51 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 52 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
| 53 | It all happened in a few seconds . |
| 54 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 55 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 56 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 57 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 58 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 59 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 60 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |