Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
| 32 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 33 | He rested for a few minutes , before pushing himself on . |
| 34 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 35 | ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried . |
| 36 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 37 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 38 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
| 39 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |
| 40 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 41 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 42 | It all happened in a few seconds . |
| 43 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 44 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 45 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 46 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 47 | The police arrived within a few minutes . |
| 48 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 49 | Bigwig listened and sniffed for a few moments . |
| 50 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
| 51 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 52 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
| 53 | He returned after a few minutes and put the tray on a low table by his chair . |
| 54 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 55 | He walked past a few minutes ago and said that 's the third letter you 've written today why do n't you put them in the same envelope and save postage ? |
| 56 | SURVIVOR : Patrese escaped with a few bruises |
| 57 | I escaped with a few scars and I have no doubt that my greatest support was the knowledge that I was n't economically dependent on my family . |
| 58 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 59 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 60 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |