Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 2 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 3 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 4 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 5 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 6 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 7 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 8 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 9 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 10 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
| 12 | But the convoy got stuck again a few miles out of Rogatica , where it had been blocked , by fallen timber thrown on the road , according to Commander Barry Frewer of the United Nations Protection Force ( Unprofor ) in Sarajevo . |
| 13 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
| 14 | Carbon fibre technology has taken pole vaulting to heights unimaginable only a few years ago . |
| 15 | So why not spare just a few hours for Amnesty International ? |
| 16 | There were no hip replacements available just a few years ago . |
| 17 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
| 18 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
| 19 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 20 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |