Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
| 2 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 3 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 4 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 5 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 6 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 7 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 8 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 9 | Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over . |
| 10 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 11 | listened to transmission from the Kittyhawk and Bill offered a few suggestions as Dick became familiar with his mount . |
| 12 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 13 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
| 14 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 15 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 16 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 17 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 18 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 19 | The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios . |
| 20 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 21 | Valerie Place was killed just a few days after Oxfam workers had visited the area . |
| 22 | He was due in the Wing a few days after Dickie started in his new school , in just over three weeks ' time . |
| 23 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 24 | A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . |
| 25 | The Tremaynes owned a few acres where Tom , disabled since the First World War , grew early tomatoes and potatoes and , in peacetime , daffodils . |
| 26 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 27 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 28 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |
| 29 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
| 30 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |