Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 2 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 3 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 4 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 5 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 6 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 7 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 8 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 9 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 10 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 11 | The Syracusan tyranny lasted for a few more years ; Hiero was even able to install his son Deinomenes as ruler of a new city of Etna , built to house the population of Katane and Naxos , ousted some time in the 470s ( cp . |
| 12 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 13 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 14 | Holy chaos reigned for a few moments while all heaven was let loose . |
| 15 | But there was a motor bike went by a few minutes ago . |
| 16 | The foreigner stumbled on a few steps , his brains leaking out around his earphones , and collapsed in a heap . |
| 17 | The artist thought for a few moments . |
| 18 | The calling continued for a few moments and then , with a cry of ‘ bitch ’ , to her horror , Nicky Scott Wilson began to make the most blood-curdling noise as he bayed her name to the night sky , like a wolf . |
| 19 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 20 | I must confess to a profound sense of foreboding upon making this observation which de-generated into abject horror upon hearing the said track and realising that Oldfield 's contribution amounted to a few bars sampled from ‘ Tubular Bells ’ ! |
| 21 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
| 22 | The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier . |
| 23 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 24 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 25 | His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home . |
| 26 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |