Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [det] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 2 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 3 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 4 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 5 | She rummaged about in her brown paper carrier-bag for a few minutes more . |
| 6 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 7 | And then they 'd have a big auction for a few pounds where Dad used to do the auctioning and since he was a sergeant major one could hear his voice . |
| 8 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 9 | Having used the preamp for a few weeks now I have got bored with the presets and want to start using it to create some more familiar sounds . |
| 10 | Some were parents enjoying the luxury of a few hours away from their children , who were fully occupied with games and competitions at the miniclub . |
| 11 | He echoed her words of a few moments before , and the jarring note of triumph in his voice rang a warning bell somewhere in Shannon 's mind . |
| 12 | His words of a few days ago came unbidden into her mind . |
| 13 | Led by lively frontman Steven Tyler , the band have enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in recent years thanks to the mega-selling ‘ Pump ’ album of a few years back and several hit singles , including ‘ Rag Doll ’ , ‘ Love In An Elevator ’ , ‘ Janie 's Got A Gun ’ and ‘ Livin' On The Edge ’ . |
| 14 | But not many people this century , even during the boom of a few years ago ( when Tory ministers still bragged about the ‘ sea change ’ that had supposedly taken place in the British economy ) , have ever seriously thought of the UK as a ‘ land of opportunity ’ . |
| 15 | As for Oxford in the next round — a chance to avenge that awful 4–1 League cup defeat from a few years back once and for all . |
| 16 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 17 | Modigliani saw the potential of the boy , who ironically became Beatrice 's lover within a few years when he was 18 and she was over 40 . |
| 18 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 19 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 20 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 21 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 22 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 23 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |
| 24 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 25 | A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed . |
| 26 | This will not only destabilise the Government and get the IRA maximum publicity , it will also save the lives of a few innocents out buying walnuts and tangerines . |
| 27 | This alone may well explain the presence of walled areas with a few buildings within , as at Margidunum . |
| 28 | We shall have Bryan Robson and Lee Sharpe mush fitter in a few weeks when they have had more games . ’ |
| 29 | Sarah was keen to catch her brother up but did n't really get involved in the sport until a few years later whilst studying at Nottingham University . |
| 30 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |