Example sentences of "[adv] a [det] [noun] [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 | LIVER transplant girl Kelly Prosser is only a few smiles away from home , thanks to caring friends . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 24 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A cupboard in the cell was moved aside to reveal the rope and the trap only a few feet away beyond an open door . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , when Beth was only a few feet away , Matthew raised his head and his eyes met hers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To Joseph 's delight the Resident Superior led his entourage to the very front of the audience chamber and the American boy found himself standing only a few feet away from the throne where the Emperor Khai Dinh , a slender , almost feminine figure , sat swathed in a golden robe of richly embroidered silk . |