Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
2 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
3 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
4 | They swing to the top of the backswing and then practise with the left arm bouncing the club up and down a few times so that there is a feeling of taking control of the downswing and the right shoulder not wanting to push . |
5 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
6 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
7 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
8 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
9 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
10 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
11 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
12 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
13 | ‘ Perhaps a few minutes more , ’ she answered . |
14 | Perhaps a few hours away from here would cure the feeling of claustrophobia that was beginning to creep over her . |
15 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
16 | The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more . |
17 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
18 | The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination . |
19 | That was the gist of what the Air Force chief of staff said , thinking out loud a few weeks ago . |
20 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
21 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
22 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
23 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
24 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
25 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
26 | Moving was no problem , as the houses were only a few streets apart . |
27 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
28 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
29 | Only a few molecules thick , how did they build in so much padding ? |
30 | But , wait , but the thing is yeah , there 's only a few scenes where everyone 's in it , right , and where people , everyone is in it , then obviously I 'm gon na have help from you or from Andy are n't I ? |