Example sentences of "few [noun pl] early " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 2 | arrive a few minutes early ; |
| 3 | He was a few minutes early . |
| 4 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's just a few minutes early for the unveiling of the new me . |
| 6 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 7 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 8 | Set the alarm clock a few minutes earlier and exercise before you get up . |
| 9 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |
| 10 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 11 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 12 | A few minutes earlier , however , and those flames would have been funeral pyres — such was the significance of this game to the club , who have seen their promising start to the season subside . |
| 13 | The size , amplitude and repeat period of these events vary and those during the satellite pass are weaker than those seen just a few minutes earlier . |
| 14 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 16 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 17 | ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply . |
| 18 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 19 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 20 | The boardroom was half empty now , just the Chester family remaining following the break-up of the emergency board meeting a few minutes earlier . |
| 21 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 22 | Her mother had checked on her only a few minutes earlier , and found her sleeping soundly . |
| 23 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 24 | I agree with your correspondent 's sentiments regarding the Forth Road Bridge and the removal of the tolls , but he will only be arriving a few minutes earlier at Edinburgh 's infamous Barnton roundabout tailback , which I believe can only be resolved by switching transport policy away from cars and road freight . |
| 25 | A neighbour who often did shopping for the Lennons had left the semi-detached in Heyford Road , Marsh Green , on the outskirts of Wigan , only a few minutes earlier . |
| 26 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 29 | A few hours earlier , Ismail Fahmi , the Egyptian foreign minister , had emphasised his country 's deteriorating relations with Damascus by claiming that Syria 's invasion might produce ‘ massacre and genocide ’ in Lebanon . |
| 30 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |