Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
2 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
3 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
4 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
5 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
6 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
7 | Just a few hours ago this had been exactly what she wanted . |
8 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
9 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
10 | THERE looked a slim possibility yesterday that Owners Abroad might escape the clutches of rival travel group Airtours , just a few hours ahead of the close of the £290 million bid battle at 1pm today . |
11 | She was followed just a few hours later by Pole who , like Wolsey before him , had remained to the end torn between his allegiance to his monarch and his obedience to his spiritual lord . |
12 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
13 | Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland . |
14 | Just a few hours earlier , we had arrived in real twentieth-century style . |
15 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
16 | MASTER potter Michael Hughes hopes to raise more than just a few laughs when he takes part in a marathon charity event . |
17 | ‘ With Pharos , they will be just a few keystrokes away from the information they need to appreciate the detailed impact of community legislation on their businesses . ’ |
18 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
19 | His dad Keith and mum Carol live just a few streets away in Hoylake , Wirral . |
20 | I was sitting in a corner with Ann Sheridan , just a few tables away from Bogie and Mayo . |
21 | For Golfing enthusiasts , there is the excellent BALLATER GOLF CLUB , just a few minutes away . |
22 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
23 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
24 | Granville emphasized just a few minutes ago , anything to do with the quality system is not a Moses job . |
25 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
26 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
27 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
28 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
29 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
30 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |