Example sentences of "up a few [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
2 | Straightening up a few minutes later , Lindsey nodded and smiled reassuringly . |
3 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
4 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
5 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
6 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
7 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
8 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
9 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
10 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
11 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
12 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
13 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
14 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
15 | Now , if like me you 've yet to attempt this big production number you could pick up a few tips here , after all , we 've a number of professionals in this hundred , hoteliers , dressmakers , cake makers , photographers , and video makers , registrars , ministers , but above all , we have a lot ex-brides here , and let's start off by finding how many we have . |
16 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
17 | After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed . |
18 | Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down . |