Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [det] [noun] " 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| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest .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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 5 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 6 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 7 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists . |
| 17 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 18 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The train moved forward a few yards and stopped . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 23 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
| 24 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 25 | The board hastily named as acting director Clay Johnson III , a mail-order executive hired only a few months earlier as chief operating officer . |
| 26 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 27 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 28 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 29 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 30 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |