Example sentences of "few [noun] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But just a few hours later Coca-Cola issued this statement : |
| 32 | A few hours later ministers were saying that there would be extra payments . |
| 33 | A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake . |
| 34 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 35 | In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased . |
| 36 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 37 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 38 | A few months later Rob was playing this bassline and richard , prancing about with the microphone , started singing ‘ I 'm too sexy … ’ |
| 39 | A few months later Murray began a miserable round of university interviews at which he felt his prospects had been unjustly and completely blighted . |
| 40 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 41 | In April 1820 Green 's doctor , Richard Scambler , and his prating wife are ‘ replete with folly ’ , and in writing his obituary a few months later Green ‘ can find very little to praise . ’ |
| 42 | A few months later Who Dares arrived at a channel port on a trailer , completing her journey by road after taking part in a power boat race abroad . |
| 43 | A few months later H. L. Davison , the public assistance officer , reported to the Institution Committee that the new National Assistance Bill had received its second reading in Parliament . |
| 44 | A few months later Prieur became pregnant and she too returned to France . |
| 45 | A few months later Sanders recalled that Lloyd George had " prophesied great unpopularity for the government during the period of demobilisation and said if we had an election in the Spring we might get a Bolshevik Government . |
| 46 | A few months later Greville was killed in a car crash in Morocco . |
| 47 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 48 | ‘ A few months ago Emma was undergoing chemotherapy and was unable to walk , so a train journey would have been very difficult for her . |
| 49 | A few months ago NME cover stars SEAN HUGHES and CATHAL COUGHLAN announced that they were bringing out an LP together . |
| 50 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 51 | A few months ago Cozy put a solo album out , and a band together which I 'm also part of , with a few gigs coming up in Germany now , and then more round Europe in January . |
| 52 | A few months earlier Lord Wheatley spoke on behalf of all the High Court judges in Scotland . |
| 53 | A few months earlier La Fresnaye , a member of the jury of the Salon d'Automne of 1913 , had written , ‘ painting is clearly becoming more abstract . ’ |
| 54 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 55 | In mediaeval Britain it was eaten in very large quantities , often raw , and a few centuries later William Shakespeare commented unfavourably on its smell . |
| 56 | Tax at the reduced rate of 20 per cent is due , which amounts to £38 a year , or a few pence over £3 a month . |
| 57 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 58 | Cooper took out Base 's off stump and then a few balls later Courtney Walsh wrapped things up and derbyshire were all out for 521 … |
| 59 | Within a few years both Port and Brimscombe Mills were again run together , by P.C. Evans and Sons . |
| 60 | A few years later Thomson recognised Cage as ‘ the most original composer in America , if not the world … ’ and Cage repaid the compliment by writing the works section of a monograph on Thomson . |