Example sentences of "it [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 2 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 3 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 4 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |
| 5 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 6 | other guy , you know , he does it in garages , he 's done it quite a few times before on cars he 's had himself , so |
| 7 | if , if I was really stuck and I had the , the tools , which , I would n't have you see , but if I did have the tools there , then yeah I would be able to do it cos I 've seen Martin doing it quite a few times , so |
| 8 | Put this list away for a while and then look at it again a few days later — are your reasons still the same ? |