Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours . |
| 4 | From the PC user 's point of view , neatly labelled disks can be a godsend , and utilities for producing such things did well a few years back . |
| 5 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 6 | The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago . |
| 7 | The CEA 's official reports on the Itteville dump claimed radioactivity levels reached only a few hundred becquerels per cubic metre . |
| 8 | It should be remembered , however , that among the few hundred pulsars detected only a few are binary pulsars ; binary black holes may therefore form a comparably small proportion of all black holes . |
| 9 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 10 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 11 | She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’ |
| 12 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 13 | Actually I saw so many women saw quite a few women up there . |
| 14 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |