Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later a barge hove into view . |
| 2 | And when a few moments later the telephone goes , and the gas man says that he wo n't after all be coming today to service the boiler , he gets his head bitten off ! |
| 3 | A few moments later the other followed . |
| 4 | A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust , heading down towards the charcoal city . |
| 5 | For a few moments more the warlock held his/her shape and Jaq almost despaired . |
| 6 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 7 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 8 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 9 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 10 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 11 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 12 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 13 | A few hours earlier a Pakistan lead of hundreds seemed probable . |
| 14 | Only a few hours earlier an unexpected Meeting Notice had been issued , the agenda being simply ‘ To consider the conduct of Major H. R. Maxim ’ . |
| 15 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 16 | otherwise you 'll put a few spaces then a new line and this will go . |
| 17 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 18 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 19 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 20 | ‘ A few minutes ago an old man came to my office . |
| 21 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 22 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 23 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 24 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 25 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 26 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 27 | A few minutes later a second girl ran into the office . |
| 28 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 29 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 30 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |