Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 2 | This brief article has necessarily picked out only a few aspects of diamond . |
| 3 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 4 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |
| 5 | My mother had died unexpectedly only a few months before . |
| 6 | He says Tory hardman Norman Tebbit was ‘ roughed up quite a few times ’ by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | This more gentle , gradual return to normal relies on a lot of family support , of course , and it 's easier to achieve , says Caroline , with a home birth or with a domino delivery ( when you 're examined by the community midwife at home , delivered in hospital by her , and then brought home again a few hours later ) . |
| 8 | A very similar idea to Linde 's was put forth independently a few months later by Paul Steinhardt and Andreas Albrecht of the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 9 | Barrie Clarke … says it was a tough race so much mud and he got thrown off quite a few times |
| 10 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 11 | With your inbuilt tachometer you 've no doubt clocked up quite a few since Seville . ’ |