Example sentences of "of a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys could see that in reception classes , as in the all-in village school of a few generations ago , only one teacher taught all subjects to children between twelve and sixteen . |
| 2 | She could n't explain now her bitter fury of a few moments ago or why she had used Marie to take revenge on Simon . |
| 3 | If that is the case , the Home Secretary 's statement of a few moments ago is wrong . |
| 4 | He was already striding towards the door , the gentleness of a few moments ago already forgotten , Lindsey realised , with a surprising stab of regret . |
| 5 | He echoed her words of a few moments before , and the jarring note of triumph in his voice rang a warning bell somewhere in Shannon 's mind . |
| 6 | Some were parents enjoying the luxury of a few hours away from their children , who were fully occupied with games and competitions at the miniclub . |
| 7 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 8 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 9 | His words of a few days ago came unbidden into her mind . |
| 10 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 11 | A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed . |
| 12 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 13 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
| 14 | Whether you break down , have your car stolen , or need the police or an ambulance , help will be only the press of a few buttons away — without leaving the car . |
| 15 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |
| 16 | Guitarist Simon Walker left right at the end of recording and so , as of a few weeks ago , we have a brand-new House Of Love guitarist — ex-Woodentop Simon Mawby , fresh from playing funky Chic-style stuff behind Jimmy Somerville , and now in the unenviable position of trying to learn the new album while compressing three guitar parts into one in order to play it live . |
| 17 | ‘ Nevertheless , the atmosphere today compared to that of a few weeks ago is more conducive to a satisfactory settlement , ’ concluded Donald . |
| 18 | Duff Cooper , against all expectations of a few weeks before , won by a majority of nearly 6000 . |
| 19 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 20 | The same facial type is adapted to his Self-Portrait ( Philadelphia Museum of Art ) of a few months later , and it is used again , in a more sculptural way , in the Two Nudes ( The Museum of Modern Art , New York ) also of late 1906 . |
| 21 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
| 22 | Crystal and Davy on the other hand are focusing on the language of a few speakers well known to them , and it may well be that in their case the nature of the personal ties between investigator and subject makes candid recording a less pressing ethical issue . |
| 23 | There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon 's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago . |
| 24 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 25 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 26 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 27 | But not many people this century , even during the boom of a few years ago ( when Tory ministers still bragged about the ‘ sea change ’ that had supposedly taken place in the British economy ) , have ever seriously thought of the UK as a ‘ land of opportunity ’ . |
| 28 | as he reflects the situation of a few years ago . |
| 29 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 30 | With the exception of a few journalists perhaps over-committed to the official Anglo-American view after following it so assiduously for three years , the press , too , was mostly unenthusiastic . |