Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester had a few players out as well . |
| 2 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 4 | She walked into the sitting-room a few minutes later as he was replacing the phone . |
| 5 | That 's to take care of my having to hand a few bribes out as well as supporting myself . |
| 6 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 7 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 8 | His knowledge of Birkdale paid off handsomely a few years later as he accompanied Arnold Palmer to Palmer 's first Open win . |
| 9 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 10 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 11 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |