Example sentences of "a few [noun] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 2 | A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed . |
| 3 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 4 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 5 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 6 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 7 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 8 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
| 9 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 10 | A few days later inflammation had diminished and in some animals the jejunum looked macroscopically normal . |
| 11 | Just a few days later baby Joe was born , weighing just four and three quarter pounds , but healthy ; living proof that rhesus babies now have the chance they deserve . |
| 12 | A few days later rumour spread that a thousand tinners intended to march on Looe . |
| 13 | A few days later president Wilson proclaimed his ‘ Fourteen Points ’ , his own version of the new consensus . |
| 14 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 15 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |
| 16 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 17 | Within a few years both Port and Brimscombe Mills were again run together , by P.C. Evans and Sons . |
| 18 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
| 19 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
| 20 | A few places there size of house . |
| 21 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 22 | You 've had few a few callers today Rod yeah ? |
| 23 | Instead , place cotton wool soaked in remover over each nail , hold for a few seconds then life off . |
| 24 | A few months ago Cozy put a solo album out , and a band together which I 'm also part of , with a few gigs coming up in Germany now , and then more round Europe in January . |
| 25 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |