Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] a few " in BNC.

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1 The lot cost Joe only a few bob .
2 ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago .
3 And Oxford , since bringing in 20 year old Ian Gardiner to stroke position just a few weeks ago , are now edging ahead as favourites .
4 Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October .
5 We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’
6 A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs .
7 The last exchange of messages took place only a few seconds later when the tower asked the height of the aircraft ; on receiving the reply " 1,400 on the QNH " the tower controller observed : " I think you are to the south of the field " .
8 As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse .
9 They fear that increasing raids from bordering Mozambique just a few miles away , together with the lack of any local security , has turned the area into a no-go zone .
10 It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors .
11 couples , motherhood , incest , marriage , sadness , relations , grief that 's what we think covers quite a few of the stories , do n't we .
12 This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later .
13 Single-mode fibres also operate at 1.3 micrometres , but they have cores only a few micrometers across .
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