Example sentences of "[v-ing] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If possible , either the hall porter or receptionist will escort the guests to their room offering to carry any hand luggage and walking a few steps ahead to open any doors . |
| 2 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 3 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 4 | I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time . |
| 5 | Vologsky increased his pace , momentarily , gaining a few feet so that he could look back at Kirov 's grim face . |
| 6 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 7 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 8 | In the depth of a recession , saving a few pounds here and there is essential , especially where that status symbol/poverty maker , the car , is concerned . |
| 9 | He was strumming a few chords now , one foot up on a stool , and the silence in the little bar was complete . |
| 10 | Mr Turner , a retired electronics computer engineer , and Mr Hubbard were among 85 training on HMS Defiant at Devonport but finished training a few months apart and lost touch in 1953 . |
| 11 | Daren Fifield is our first new champ … we met up with him in training a few weeks ago … the boy was a knockout … |
| 12 | The boardroom was half empty now , just the Chester family remaining following the break-up of the emergency board meeting a few minutes earlier . |
| 13 | The Politburo , at its meeting a few days later , described the summit as a ‘ major event in international life ’ whose main result had been the ‘ deepening of the political dialogue between the Soviet Union and the USA ’ ; and the dialogue did , indeed , continue under Reagan 's successor George Bush , first at a storm-tossed ‘ get to know you ’ summit off Malta and then more formally in the course of an official presidential visit to the United States in 1990 . |
| 14 | Micheline sounded excited to hear from me and I was invited to the group 's meeting a few weeks later . |
| 15 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 16 | Her measures are simpler [ than Clare 's ] and she appears not to think of anything more audacious than writing a few forms skilfully and with point . |
| 17 | Ifor Evans , writing a few issues later , goes much further : " if aesthetic criticism is to become a reputable study , as honest and sober as philology , it must develop a method and vocabulary as precise and exacting as those of the physical sciences " , so as to be able " to describe with an almost mathematical rigidity the content of a poetic creation or an aesthetic theory " . |
| 18 | I can see it solving a few problems here . |
| 19 | The things you tell stories about to your friends afterwards , adding a few details here and there , until you suddenly realise you 've got a character . ’ |
| 20 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 21 | They consist of ridges of shingle and sand projecting above high water level and generally lying a few kilometres offshore . |
| 22 | I climbed into my sleeping bag and slipped from one dreamworld into another , waking a few hours later to drift down through birdsong in the cool forest to the jarring heat and bustle of Aviemore . |
| 23 | Whole circuits are reduced to small slivers of material , measuring a few millimetres across , and the number of components and whole circuits that can be put on each chip is increasing each year . |
| 24 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 25 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |
| 26 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 27 | from where we lived from there apart from the fact they were building a few factories then |
| 28 | I might enjoy sampling what I was touching a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 29 | He was staying a few miles away , with the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard , and he would be hunting that day with the Lord Middleton 's . |
| 30 | Now I know as I was saying a few moments ago , I travelled to the continent just recently , and I know we had to pay a surcharge on the flight . |