Example sentences of "a few [det] [noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few more attempts convinced him that nobody was going to put in an appearance . |
| 2 | Slowly , a few more notes appeared : 300 , 400 , 550 , 650 — finally 700 rupees had been collected . |
| 3 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 4 | Congress , if a few more voters got off their backsides last year and gone out and voted , and voted Labour , there 'd be no need for this motion at all because it 's Labour Party policy anyway . |
| 5 | A few more years went by |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose we got a few more names on a few more files learnt a bit about Moscow 's accountancy procedures . |
| 7 | It was almost invariably the same : halfway through any case Morse would be off on some improbable and complicated line of thought which would be just as readily abandoned as soon as a few more facts emerged . |
| 8 | A few more cars sped by . |