Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 2 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 3 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 4 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 5 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 6 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 7 | The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain . |
| 8 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 9 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 10 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 11 | Why are government bonds which still have eleven months to run regarded as liquid , whereas overdrafts granted for a few weeks are not ? |
| 12 | Lacuna 's eyes closed for a few seconds . |
| 13 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 14 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 15 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 16 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 17 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 18 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 19 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 20 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
| 21 | ‘ Both born in the Ukraine , you 'll notice , ’ Manville explained after a few seconds . |
| 22 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 23 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 24 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 25 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 26 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 27 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 28 | In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands . |
| 29 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 30 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |