Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] for [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 2 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 3 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 4 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |