Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 3 | and dad 's been away so I 've sold Peter a few cars . |
| 4 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 5 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 6 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 7 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 8 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 9 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |