Example sentences of "come [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If only it had come a few years earlier .
2 The first cavalry charge came a few minutes later and it clearly worried the pickets .
3 But Yorkshire 's lead by then was 53 with the final 20 overs approaching and Craig White and Darren Gough carefully batted on until rain came a few minutes before the close .
4 Well , Anna came a few times .
5 With that came a few showers , mostly on the east coast .
6 Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later .
7 ‘ Oh , who cares where it came from ! ’ screamed Mavis , as the wolf came a few steps further into the room .
8 Mr Creme believes Christ has already come again — came a few years ago actually — and is now residing in the Asian community in London , waiting for a more receptive attitude from the press before He shows Himself on worldwide television , when ‘ He wo n't actually speak , but His thoughts , His ideas , His call to humanity , will take place silently , telepathically . ’
9 In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 .
10 One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) .
11 But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later .
12 Richard 's turn came a few months later .
13 It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms .
14 A tickling cough coming every few hours with increasing intensity .
15 He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago .
16 The timing of Nguyen 's visit was regarded as significant by some commentators , coming a few days before the arrival in Moscow of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin [ see p. 38189 ] .
17 ‘ He can count his good luck that he did n't come a few minutes earlier , ’ Rune said crisply .
18 Both cases come a few weeks after a 12-year-old American boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida .
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