Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether any of this espionage achieves much is a matter of opinion but West Germany is never slow to publicise the capture of a few spies as being a serious breach of national security . |
| 2 | He lay on his back for a few moments as he always did , then turned onto his right side , arranging himself as if for sleep . |
| 3 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 4 | One animal has narrowly escaped death twice in the space of a few weeks as Simon Garrett reports |
| 5 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 6 | " You 'll have the application form in a few days as soon as I can get it processed . " |
| 7 | Rory pushed herself out of her chair , suddenly fuelled by restless energy , and strode to the window , gazing unseeingly over the lawn for a few moments as anger seethed within her . |
| 8 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 9 | She 'd called him Sage , and she only stayed at my house for a few minutes as she had to get right back to see her new baby — the owl , of course . |