Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later . |
| 2 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 3 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 4 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 5 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 6 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 8 | He took over as chairman a few months later . |
| 9 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |
| 10 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
| 13 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 14 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 15 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 16 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
| 17 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 18 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 19 | ‘ You have an immense output , ’ Willoughby said severely to Emily a few weeks later , leaning over her desk as if he were a judge himself . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 21 | Kom Ombo and Edfu , like the fitness of my charges , have been and gone , and now at Esna a few determined explorers rattle by horse-drawn carriage towards the town centre at 6am . |
| 22 | As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one . |
| 23 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ You got together again in Sydney a few years ago , I 'm told , and here you are a third time . |
| 25 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |