Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 3 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 4 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 5 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 6 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 7 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 8 | And the chapter on some uses of grammar turns out to be more about how a few parts of the grammatical system undergoing diachronic change are open for exploitation by authors at this time . |
| 9 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 10 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 11 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 12 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 13 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 14 | He lifted the skeleton bunch of grapes — now with only a few fruit clinging on precariously — back to the metal bedside cabinet . |
| 15 | The following list of types of secondary schools includes some that no longer exist and others that now exist only in very small numbers , often in just a few LEAs . |
| 16 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 17 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 18 | Like Trevor , when the other person 's tension breaks and the anger bursts , do you feel any satisfaction or relief within yourself , even for only a few moments ? |
| 19 | She could tell he was relieved to be let off the hook if even for only a few minutes , despite his words as they 'd come downstairs . |
| 20 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 21 | Dorothy Sayers separates her description of the picture and her list of the fallen paints here by only a few pages ( which is perhaps why I guessed , for once ) but you can see how similar clues can be kept in two parts with dozens of pages between them . |
| 22 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |
| 23 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 25 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 26 | The MMC has wide powers to make recommendations , and the Secretary of State to act on these recommendations , yet on only a few occasions have companies been formally penalized as a result of MMC investigations . |
| 27 | That is a far off mystic goal , perhaps , but let us at least attempt to stretch our minds , looking briefly at just a few of these cycles , and of the indispensable parts they have to play in the maintenance of planetary life . |
| 28 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |