Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewees reported that a few service users had refused to allow their names to be placed on a mental health database . |
| 2 | My survey revealed that a few people in Sukuma-speaking areas still had difficulty in answering questions in Swahili ; others who understood Swahili nonetheless asked to be interviewed in Sukuma . |
| 3 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |
| 4 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
| 5 | ( The first Yugoslav report of unrest in Shkodër had appeared on Dec. 19 , when a Serbian newspaper claimed that a few days earlier there had been an anti-government demonstration involving " a large number of people " . |
| 6 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 7 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
| 8 | You 've heard what happened when a few particles came into contact with the vagrant . |
| 9 | His only children were a daughter , Lois , who survived him , and a son , Stanley Robert , who lived but a few days : both were by his first wife . |
| 10 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 11 | Oh we did that a few times when the , the borders were closed with |
| 12 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 13 | By the time Cynthia had discovered that Harry Keynes , now twenty-one years old , was living in Kentucky in the United States , Dorothy had but a few days to live . |
| 14 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 15 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 16 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |