Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 3 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 5 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 6 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 7 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 8 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 9 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 10 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 11 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 12 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 13 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
| 14 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 15 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 16 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 17 | Amongst those who have fallen prey to their charms are none other than the Beaujolais Brothers , who whisked the merry troupe off to their chateau and cracked open a few bottles of ultra-rare white Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 18 | The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists . |
| 19 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 20 | Stravinsky himself upgraded quite a few of his own tempo indications , Nagano more so — there is a case for regarding Eumolpus 's solo at fig 118 ( track 2 , 8′41″ ) as too extreme : quaver=84 is the marking , Stravinsky is at about 100 , Nagano at about 125 — but I can find no evidence of undue haste . |
| 21 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 22 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 23 | The train moved forward a few yards and stopped . |
| 24 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 25 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
| 26 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 27 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 28 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 29 | We studied only a few newborn infants up to 2 months old , which made it difficult to assess fully the usefulness of the WHO criteria for detecting hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 30 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |