Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 2 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 3 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 4 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 5 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 6 | Entering the shielded room , the physician will place both hands a few inches above the disturbed area in the patient 's energy field , and begin to ‘ tune in ’ and resonate biomagnetic energy field patterns in unison with the patient . |
| 7 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |