Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 2 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 3 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 4 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 5 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 6 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 7 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 8 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 9 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
| 10 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 11 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 12 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 13 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 14 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 15 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well so that yo about Adrian after a few weeks it 's you know |