Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] few [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swing to the top of the backswing and then practise with the left arm bouncing the club up and down a few times so that there is a feeling of taking control of the downswing and the right shoulder not wanting to push . |
| 2 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 3 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 4 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 5 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
| 6 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 7 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 8 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 9 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone tried to run him over a few hours ago . |
| 12 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 13 | Being of a so-called good family does n't mean much these days , and the sort of money required to keep things ticking over a few years back does n't get you anywhere now . |
| 14 | The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am . |
| 15 | His helmet slipped over his head three furlongs out and was dangling under his right armpit passing the post , falling off a few strides later . |
| 16 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 17 | Straightening up a few minutes later , Lindsey nodded and smiled reassuringly . |
| 18 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 19 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
| 20 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 21 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 22 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
| 23 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 24 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 25 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 27 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 28 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 29 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 30 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |