Example sentences of "[verb] just a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 2 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 3 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 4 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 5 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 6 | These arc just a few examples . |
| 7 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 8 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
| 9 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 10 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 11 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 12 | The case is being heard just a few days before counter action aimed at holding up attempts to sell the house if they are forced to leave . |
| 13 | I would describe our time in Siret as being able to see just a few rays of light in a very dark week . |
| 14 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 17 | Earlier this month Mr Harris was given just a few days to live but for now his illness seems to have regressed . |
| 18 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 19 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 20 | This limits the degree of possible grazing or nibbling and explains why deer and cattle , for example , will eat just a few mouthfuls from each tree before moving on . |
| 21 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 22 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 23 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 24 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 25 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 26 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 27 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 28 | I 'll do just a few observations on the match . |
| 29 | Let me give just a few facts and figures . |
| 30 | The size , amplitude and repeat period of these events vary and those during the satellite pass are weaker than those seen just a few minutes earlier . |