Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned round as she reached the pavement to discover Urquhart a few steps behind . |
| 2 | My sister-in-law was allowed to visit Palestine a few years ago . |
| 3 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 4 | Nigel decided to leave things a few weeks then issue an invitation to dinner . |
| 5 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 6 | But a far cry from the hard ones used to describe life a few miles away in Orlando where police spokesman Jim Soloman was at pains to spell out the dangers — and with no exaggeration . |
| 7 | Even when a problem is solved and the fish have apparently recovered it is common for tropicals to suffer an outbreak of White Spot and Coralfish to get Oodinium a few days later . |
| 8 | The fact that a 23 year old black man was making films at all would have been enough to raise eyebrows a few years ago . |