Example sentences of "in a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few cases , prisoners are reported to have been deliberately executed without trial . |
| 2 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 3 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 4 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 5 | I 've got a meeting in a few minutes and I — ’ |
| 6 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 7 | I 'll catch up with you again in a few minutes . |
| 8 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 9 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 10 | Unless this is quickly controlled , in a few seconds the glider can be far too high above the towplane . |
| 11 | Some women have minor side-effects which normally pass in a few months . |
| 12 | Treatment is usually a lotion which kills the lice and nits in a few easy applications . |
| 13 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ You 're down to lay the table in a few minutes . ’ |
| 15 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 16 | However , a machine can only stretch in a few directions and is therefore only of limited value . |
| 17 | But when the edge had dulled it was no problem and on the harder wood a burn mark could be left in a few seconds if very little pressure was applied with the cutter just spinning on the surface . |
| 18 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 19 | It is perhaps appropriate to stress again that where playwrights require pages of dialogue to explain every factor in the development of the plot , to create a changing atmosphere and to show how the actions affect the actors in the play , dancers can communicate whole passages of dialogue in a few expressive gestures woven into enchaînements . |
| 20 | One senses a rush of creative warmth as this lonely rapt figure is conjured in a few sentences . |
| 21 | In a few weeks ' time , the fallen leaves will have risen from ankle to knee deep . |
| 22 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 23 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 24 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 25 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 27 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 28 | A market for imported grapefruit , that grew from zero to several million dollars worth in a few months , was destroyed even more quickly . |
| 29 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 30 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |