Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
2 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
3 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
4 | ‘ Perhaps a few minutes more , ’ she answered . |
5 | Perhaps a few hours away from here would cure the feeling of claustrophobia that was beginning to creep over her . |
6 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
7 | The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more . |
8 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
9 | The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination . |
10 | That was the gist of what the Air Force chief of staff said , thinking out loud a few weeks ago . |
11 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
12 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
13 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
14 | They went wild and made us promise to come back and give a display , so a few weeks later we returned and gave them the whole show . |
15 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
16 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
17 | Moving was no problem , as the houses were only a few streets apart . |
18 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
19 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
20 | Only a few molecules thick , how did they build in so much padding ? |
21 | But , wait , but the thing is yeah , there 's only a few scenes where everyone 's in it , right , and where people , everyone is in it , then obviously I 'm gon na have help from you or from Andy are n't I ? |
22 | LIVER transplant girl Kelly Prosser is only a few smiles away from home , thanks to caring friends . |
23 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
24 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
25 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
26 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
27 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
28 | Space and depth are easily confused ; an animal 20 yards down may appear to be only a few feet away , and in following it down to get a closer look , a diver may suddenly find himself well past prescribed diving depths . |
29 | Unfortunately , when Beth was only a few feet away , Matthew raised his head and his eyes met hers . |
30 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |