Example sentences of "[noun sg] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Martin Gilfellan had taken the car just a few minutes before the accident and was being followed by the police when he drove straight over a junction . |
2 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |
3 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
4 | To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees . |
5 | She stole a final critical glance at her face , mentally awarding herself top marks for skilful covering of the tear-stains which had marred her skin just a few minutes before . |
6 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
7 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
8 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
9 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
10 | We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve . |
11 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
12 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
13 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
14 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
15 | Nearly 6,000 miles away from the fog and frost of Britain , the southern Californian desert just a few miles from the border of Mexico . |
16 | We listened to the hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) — we often must do so — and he defended the council tax with all the conviction with which he defended the poll tax just a few months ago . |
17 | And if you can do all that with her husband just a few feet away , blissfully unaware that he 's the butt of the joke , then yours is his house and everything that 's in it , old son . |
18 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
19 | You 're a garden designer — a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago , if you remember ; I want a garden designed . ’ |
20 | The sailors stopped digging when the trench was about one foot deep , then they sat down and lit up their cigarettes , gazing around the orchard , taking not the slightest notice of the mortar team just a few yards from them . |
21 | She could see his face quite clearly , as it was lit by the gas street lamp just a few feet behind him . |
22 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
23 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
24 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
25 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
26 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
27 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
28 | She had discussed it with her father just a few days back . |
29 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
30 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |