Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 2 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 3 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 4 | And after just a few minutes the cold was starting to get through . |
| 5 | But just a few minutes the vicar arrived , and despite the Church 's apology insisted the crosses would have to go . |
| 6 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 7 | In just a few days the centre will be a hive of activity . |
| 8 | This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun , but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions . |
| 9 | The seed planted in the good soil produced thirty , sixty and even a hundred times the original sowing . |
| 10 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 11 | Erm put it over a hundred times the eight . |