Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 2 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 3 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 4 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 5 | Can you give me just a few moments ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 7 | Well you 've heard her on phone , she 's phoned you quite a few times . |
| 8 | Before , it gives you quite a few clues to what you may be asked and will help you to present yourself properly and to prepare your answers . |
| 9 | Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York . |
| 10 | ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me . |
| 11 | This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all . |
| 12 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
| 13 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
| 14 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 15 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 16 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 17 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 18 | Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again . |
| 19 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 20 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 21 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 22 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 23 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 24 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 25 | ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago . |
| 26 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 27 | Oh I phoned her back a few days later and said how are things now ? |
| 28 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 29 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 30 | She moved soon after that to Thetford in your East Anglia and I was able to phone her there a few times . |