Example sentences of "[vb past] just a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 6 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 7 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 8 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 9 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 10 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
| 11 | He and his family escaped just a few days before the Nazi invasion , abandoning all their property and possessions . |
| 12 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 13 | The second accident involved an 18ft boat which capsized just a few yards off the Lincolnshire coast . |
| 14 | Drums of radioactive waste stored just a few feet behind a fence that seperates the Harwell site from a public footpath . |
| 15 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
| 16 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 17 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
| 18 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 19 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 20 | She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’ |
| 21 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 22 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 23 | Granville emphasized just a few minutes ago , anything to do with the quality system is not a Moses job . |