Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
2 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
3 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
4 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
5 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
6 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
7 | Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique . |
8 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
9 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
10 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
11 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
12 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
13 | So he writes it down and everybody writes bits about what 's happened , and thus eventually a few questions were asked and reply came from the Super . |
14 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
15 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
16 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
17 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
18 | It was the Collector 's hope that thus even a few men would be able to keep up a heavy fire . |
19 | there was already quite a few trees there , it was like a small wood and they 've plan and |
20 | On being taken back , he ran away again a few days later and this time was not forced to return , nor permitted to do so . |
21 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
22 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
23 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
24 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
25 | I 'd like to spend erm a few minutes , hopefully not too long because I 'm er known for talking for hours and hours when it comes to our company and our product , but hopefully just a few minutes telling you about our approach to developing an open accounting system . |
26 | A very similar idea to Linde 's was put forth independently a few months later by Paul Steinhardt and Andreas Albrecht of the University of Pennsylvania . |
27 | There are still quite a few trees and bushes festooned with the fruits of last year . |
28 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
29 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
30 | This more gentle , gradual return to normal relies on a lot of family support , of course , and it 's easier to achieve , says Caroline , with a home birth or with a domino delivery ( when you 're examined by the community midwife at home , delivered in hospital by her , and then brought home again a few hours later ) . |