Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 2 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 3 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 4 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 5 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 6 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 7 | He was due in the Wing a few days after Dickie started in his new school , in just over three weeks ' time . |
| 8 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 9 | The stave is budded and sports a few leaves as in some versions of the tarot . |
| 10 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 11 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 12 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 13 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 14 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 15 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 16 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 17 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 18 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 19 | These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published . |
| 20 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 21 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 22 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 23 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |
| 24 | I remember the days of the old motorbike test , when you just rode around the block a few times while the examiner walked to various points and watched you . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 26 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 27 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 28 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 29 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 30 | The Vice-Admiral lived at the back , and he opened his front door a few seconds after Pooley rang the bell . |