Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later Rincewind smelled bacon frying . |
| 2 | A few moments later Marie and Richard 's nursemaid appeared , panting as much with distress as exertion , with Aunt Rose , her old-fashioned roll of black hair half unpinned , behind them . |
| 3 | A few moments later Merrill heard his car start , then roar away into the night . |
| 4 | " Fetch him in ! " she ordered , and a few moments later Tristram , gagged and hand-tied , was brought into the great hall . |
| 5 | A few moments later Leonora rejoined Penry , who was prowling around the central bookstall impatiently , looking at his watch . |
| 6 | There was a pause , Riven trying to remember Minginish 's geography , but a few moments later Luib put him back to work . |
| 7 | The story we heard a few moments ago concerns one of the miracles that God performed as a part of Elisha 's ministry in Israel . |
| 8 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 9 | They walked in silence for a few moments then Chris said , ‘ Maureen thinks I should hate Beryl . |
| 10 | There are a few areas where descriptions are skimped ( for instance of Doppler effect ) and I found a few small errors . |
| 11 | A few areas where people have just got to make sure that they do things , people are mostly clear about what they have to do , erm they seem very , very positive . |
| 12 | However , there are a few areas where confusion might arise . |
| 13 | Sure , there are a few areas where quality control could be bettered , but basically the instrument does not suffer in any way . |
| 14 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 15 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 16 | A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed . |
| 17 | And then they 'd have a big auction for a few pounds where Dad used to do the auctioning and since he was a sergeant major one could hear his voice . |
| 18 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 19 | A few hours later BJP leaders in New Delhi informed President Ramaswamy Venkataraman that the party 's 88 MPs were withdrawing their crucial " external " support for Singh 's government . |
| 20 | A few hours later ministers were saying that there would be extra payments . |
| 21 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
| 22 | A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake . |
| 23 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 24 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 25 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 26 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 27 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 29 | Innovating new products , developing existing ones and a progressive programme of improving quality and services — they 're just a few reasons why Veka , and the people who choose Veka , will never stand still . |
| 30 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |