Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most campsites also have huts for hire for a few pounds per night per person . |
| 2 | Finally , remember to protect oxygenating plants with wide cylinders or domes of netting for a few weeks to prevent any fish from pulling them up before they 're established . |
| 3 | There were some fears however that only a small number of member firms would survive , and the concentration of business amongst a few firms would lead to higher transactions costs and hence lower turnover and liquidity . |
| 4 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 5 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 6 | Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Each item is separately labelled and lies on perpetual display , reducing all the pomp and ceremony of Empire to a few mute and pathetic items . |
| 8 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |
| 9 | To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it . |
| 10 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 11 | Where the growing season in short , a successful stratagem of many plants is to remain small , grow short flowering stems , and invest their small savings of energy in a few well-endowed seeds . |
| 12 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 13 | The charts entitled ‘ One-way channels ’ and ‘ Two-way channels show where people say they currently get their information ; the ‘ Supervisors and Grapevines ’ chart compares your department results regarding these two channels with results from a few other departments . |
| 14 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 15 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 16 | One reason for this problem-dominated view is the over-concentration of people into a few undesigned places , largely because people do not have either the knowledge or the confidence to leave the beaten track , whether it be road or footpath . |
| 17 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
| 18 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 19 | In the lower reaches of the forest , then , there is a constant but low level of presentation of a few flowers dealt with by low but more or less constant densities of animals , whereas in the upper layers , the flowers are more conspicuously advertised and draw such animals as birds , which are wider-ranging and with good sight , as well as the local , more stationary pollinators from lower in the forest . |
| 20 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 21 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 22 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 23 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |
| 24 | ‘ You will be going south for training within a few days . |
| 25 | Maureen Roberts , the late Director of the Edinburgh Breast Screening Project , observed that screening ‘ is not offering any certainty of cure or normal life to the women who attend , merely a prolongation of years for a few . |
| 26 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 27 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 28 | There are enough accounts of Blenheim operations to put things into historical perspective , while the detailed description of the restoration project enables one to understand how mortified all felt when human error undid years of endeavour in a few seconds . |
| 29 | We suggest you paint it with yoghurt , seaweed liquid fertiliser or a solution made by soaking a hessian bag of manure in water for a few hours . |
| 30 | Urquhart polished his nose in silence for a few seconds . |