Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move to the Right , accept Witte 's or Stolypin 's terms for a few posts in the cabinet , and they risked becoming hostages in a regime over which they would exercise no control . |
| 2 | Because three of the 20 ‘ global positioning ’ satellites will always be above the horizon the electronics can triangulate a car 's position within a few metres . |
| 3 | IBM 's talk of a few orderly spin-outs could prove naively optimistic and it could be forced to jettison whole businesses that , under more favourable conditions , it would wisely prefer to retain , imperfections and all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was nothing wrong with enjoying her own interests and social activities — including Martin Ward 's party in a few days ' time . |
| 6 | Sums laid out by administrators ranged from hundreds of pounds spent repaying deceased 's debts to a few pence spent mending children 's shoes . |
| 7 | The downfall of Mrs Thatcher , the arrival of John Major at 10 Downing Street and the Gulf War took the spotlight away from the Group 's activities for a few months . |
| 8 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 9 | You could n't show up in a place like Adam 's Creek without a few questions being asked , Jed knew that , so he 'd dreamed up a story . |
| 10 | He left the king 's service for a few years after March 1245 ; it was probably during this period that he compiled a metrical grammar for the children of Hamo de Pecche , a Cambridgeshire baron . |
| 11 | The private sector alone runs more than a thousand , dwarfing the local authority 's supply of a few dozen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | SO TOUCHING : Making an elderly woman 's day with a few kind words |
| 14 | Some mortgagees have standard clauses that they require to be inserted in the conveyance or transfer of the property charged in their favour and some mortgagees require to approve the draft document , whilst others ( for instance , the Halifax Building Society ) delegate the task of drafting to the mortgagee 's solicitor with a few suggested ( but by no means mandatory ) clauses . |
| 15 | If that is the case , the Home Secretary 's statement of a few moments ago is wrong . |
| 16 | Here , for example , is Bassano 's version of a few bars of the soprano part of Palestrina 's ‘ Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas ’ : |
| 17 | Could you not have sat tight in the fellow 's house for a few weeks longer ? ’ |
| 18 | Martin Ward got to his feet , dusting off sand , and they held each others ' eyes for a few moments without speaking . |
| 19 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |