Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later Rincewind smelled bacon frying . |
| 2 | A few moments later Marie and Richard 's nursemaid appeared , panting as much with distress as exertion , with Aunt Rose , her old-fashioned roll of black hair half unpinned , behind them . |
| 3 | A few moments later Merrill heard his car start , then roar away into the night . |
| 4 | " Fetch him in ! " she ordered , and a few moments later Tristram , gagged and hand-tied , was brought into the great hall . |
| 5 | A few moments later Leonora rejoined Penry , who was prowling around the central bookstall impatiently , looking at his watch . |
| 6 | There was a pause , Riven trying to remember Minginish 's geography , but a few moments later Luib put him back to work . |
| 7 | The story we heard a few moments ago concerns one of the miracles that God performed as a part of Elisha 's ministry in Israel . |
| 8 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 9 | They walked in silence for a few moments then Chris said , ‘ Maureen thinks I should hate Beryl . |
| 10 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 11 | A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed . |
| 12 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 13 | A few hours later BJP leaders in New Delhi informed President Ramaswamy Venkataraman that the party 's 88 MPs were withdrawing their crucial " external " support for Singh 's government . |
| 14 | A few hours later ministers were saying that there would be extra payments . |
| 15 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
| 16 | A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake . |
| 17 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 18 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
| 21 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what we planned , ’ she agreed , and a few minutes later Cicely was talking of leaving for the hospital in half an hour . |
| 23 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
| 24 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
| 25 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 26 | A few minutes later Chantal gunned the monstrous Harley Davidson out of the apartment block courtyard , with D'Arcy astride the pillion . |
| 27 | A few minutes later Sophie placed the tray on the low table beside Joanna and began to discuss the news of Helen 's engagement , but Joanna showed very little interest . |
| 28 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 29 | A few minutes later Agnes was hurrying across the yard with the fresh linen in her arms , making for the house at the end of the square , when a man passing along the pavement glanced at her , then stopped and , raising his hat , said , ‘ Good afternoon , ’ and stepped towards her . |
| 30 | A few minutes later Ben won his , assisted by a 3.11 m.p.s. wind . |