Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 2 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 3 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 4 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
| 5 | You both had quite a few |
| 6 | She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov . |
| 7 | ‘ She knew a lot of people , probably had quite a few lovers , but I think she was short on real friends . |
| 8 | He was not allowed legal representation and the proceedings , held in camera , reportedly lasted only a few minutes . |
| 9 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |
| 10 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
| 11 | In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume . |