Example sentences of "made a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 2 | Absolutely , just to make more points , they made a few things up , ex , absolutely . |
| 3 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 4 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 5 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |