Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [subord] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 2 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 5 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 6 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |
| 7 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 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 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |