Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 2 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 3 | He was due in the Wing a few days after Dickie started in his new school , in just over three weeks ' time . |
| 4 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 5 | Binkie Beaumont , good as his word , saw that he had a contract a few weeks after he was finally demobbed in 1947 . |
| 6 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 7 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 8 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 9 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 10 | These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published . |
| 11 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 12 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 13 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |
| 14 | I remember the days of the old motorbike test , when you just rode around the block a few times while the examiner walked to various points and watched you . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 16 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 17 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 18 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 19 | The Vice-Admiral lived at the back , and he opened his front door a few seconds after Pooley rang the bell . |
| 20 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 21 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 22 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 23 | You should claim your pension a few months before you reach State pension age . |
| 24 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 25 | The supermarkets get paid cash by the customer a few days after the goods arrive in their shops , while they pay their suppliers between one and two months after delivery . |
| 26 | IN A SPEECH a few weeks after he became Conservative Party chairman , Chris Patten developed an interesting thesis about this election . |
| 27 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |