Example sentences of "then [adv] a few " in BNC.
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1 | Since then only a few have carried the flame in Europe and India , but recently the worldwide growth of homœopathy has started to look again at the LM potencies which Hahnemann describes , in a footnote to 270 as being ‘ the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action i.e. as the most perfected . ’ |
2 | The accusers said she was wrong to leave Beatrice , then just a few weeks old , behind in England . |
3 | ‘ Charles , I lost my virginity when I was twelve , and since then quite a few other things have happened . ’ |
4 | If you have approximately ten minutes of work left to reach a good stopping point and , if you have approximately ten minutes of time available ( e.g. before schoolchildren arrive home ) THEN either a few , some or all stitches will immediately fall off the machine and ruin all your plans to finish on time . |
5 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
6 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |