Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these were frequently in technical language and sold in only a few outlets ; and many clergy were not concerned with encouraging the laity to grapple with complex issues . |
| 2 | ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says . |
| 3 | ‘ Euthanasia is seen as part of good terminal care , practised in only a few cases , the less the better , ’ said Prof Borst-Eilers . |
| 4 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 5 | The lane wound in wide loops all the way to Applewick , but by footpath there was a short cut across a field , through a wood , and then across another field , which came out only a few yards beyond the low bridge . |
| 6 | The Office of Fair Trading 's report on the subject came out only a few days before , and Mr Blair introduced it . |
| 7 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 8 | His knowledge of Birkdale paid off handsomely a few years later as he accompanied Arnold Palmer to Palmer 's first Open win . |
| 9 | Erm we touched on quite a few of the , quite a few of the erm bad points about living in the flats . |
| 10 | He stepped up just a few feet from the service line to receive Lendl 's second serve . |
| 11 | Your forefathers landed here only a few generations ago . |
| 12 | Ray Wilkins pulled in quite a few votes … 5 per cent … just above him is Ray Clemence … the top four … the heavywweights … the favourites … |
| 13 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 14 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 15 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 16 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 17 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 18 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 19 | I mean er I suppose you got quite quite a few outlets now . |
| 20 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |
| 21 | Still coached by Dr Pietr Labuschange , Meyer went through a rigorous training schedule over the winter months and ran in quite a few cross-country races , a new experience for her . |
| 22 | On being taken back , he ran away again a few days later and this time was not forced to return , nor permitted to do so . |
| 23 | English and French smugglers would have provided us with enough of pilots and we had indeed already a few … |
| 24 | James , Alice and Alfred hurried in guiltily a few minutes later , glaring at each other for being thrust into proximity , the former carrying bread and milk for dinner , and the latter clutching a treasure trove of samphire as a peace offering . |
| 25 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 26 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 27 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 28 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 29 | Newly renovated , the Red Eagle is a comfortable and well run hotel offering excellent facilities , set conveniently just a few minutes form the centre of the resort . |