Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 32 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 33 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 34 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 35 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 36 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 37 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 38 | He turned away for a few moments and I could see that he was upset by the news . |
| 39 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 40 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 41 | Let us begin here with a few facts — and also some fallacies — about the present . |
| 42 | Irish rugby is notorious for peaks and troughs , so look forward to a few peaks from now onwards . |
| 43 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 44 | There is a fundamental contradiction between the official figures ( which , as Teddy perfectly fairly pointed out , showed that 75 per cent of those who went on Government schemes did secure subsequent employment ) and the common experience that such jobs tended to last only for a few months . |
| 45 | Thankfully , I handed over my pens to Rosemary so that she could finish plotting the latest chart , and escaped outside for a few breaths of fresh air . |
| 46 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
| 48 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 49 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 50 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 51 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
| 52 | I crossed the road and walked casually along a few streets , and for a while I thought he 'd probably be following at a distance . |
| 53 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 54 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 55 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 56 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 57 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 58 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 59 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 60 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |