Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said . |
| 3 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 4 | The first raider had been downed only a short while earlier by Archie McKellar , who saw the attacker crash into the Lothians . |
| 5 | When you take notes during the interview it is a good idea to do so a short while after the relevant moment has passed so that the candidate is not aware of what prompted you to write . |
| 6 | The growing interest of hardware manufacturers in real-time functionality was demonstrated only a short while ago with the Overture Esprit project , which has dedicated itself to developing a real-time operating system for both the production industry and telecommunications services . |
| 7 | This hospital was apparently established in Knightsbridge in 1778 , but it survived only a short while , Snape having been left in the lurch by noblemen who promised financial support . |
| 8 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 9 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 10 | They had no ration cards for buying food and , in any case , their money would last only a little while . |
| 11 | It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth . |
| 12 | ‘ Was n't there a policeman shot there a little while ago ? ’ |
| 13 | I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know . |