Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 2 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 3 | Donna flicked ahead a few pages but could see no way of hastening her search for the information she sought . |
| 4 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
| 5 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 6 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 7 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 11 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 12 | Then Dratslinger 's howling lamentarion screamed out a few chords , Tumblejack began to give tongue like an animal in severe affliction , and the true invocation began . |
| 13 | Admitting ‘ We had words ’ in the dressing room afterwards , Dicks added : ‘ The boss spelled out a few home truths . |
| 14 | Yet their death by chainsaw took only a few moments . |
| 15 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 16 | Spurs ' humiliation was compounded when Lineker mis-kicked wildly a few feet in front of goal and fell flat on his back . |
| 17 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 18 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 19 | Although not only really big natural find came to light , nearly every family group took home a few Roman coins and , perhaps , the odd hammered medieval coin as well . |
| 20 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 21 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
| 22 | Drums of radioactive waste stored just a few feet behind a fence that seperates the Harwell site from a public footpath . |
| 23 | Since the whole process took only a few seconds for each blank and the woman was working full-time it could not be denied that this woman knew , from her own sensory experience , a great deal about the making of magnets . |
| 24 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 25 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
| 26 | The case study is based on an actual consumer behaviour investigation carried out a few years ago by a leading market research agency . |
| 27 | Poverty kept everything depressed including the birthrate , so that the planet held only a few million people , mostly low-tech agricultural . |
| 28 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 29 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 30 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |