Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 3 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 4 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 5 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 6 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 7 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 8 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 9 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 10 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 11 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 12 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 13 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
| 14 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 15 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 16 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 17 | Amongst those who have fallen prey to their charms are none other than the Beaujolais Brothers , who whisked the merry troupe off to their chateau and cracked open a few bottles of ultra-rare white Beaujolais Nouveau . |
| 18 | The dog moved off a few paces and turned back , wagging his tail anxiously . |
| 19 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
| 20 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 21 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
| 22 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 23 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 24 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 25 | The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists . |
| 26 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 27 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 28 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 29 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 30 | The train moved forward a few yards and stopped . |