Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fired by the skills of Steve Davis , I 'll go along to one of the local snooker halls for a few frames . |
| 2 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 3 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 4 | Outside the script departments of a few studios , too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts . |
| 5 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |
| 6 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |
| 7 | According to Ms Fearnley , the concentration of listed audit clients among a few firms could present difficulties . |
| 8 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll give you some cortisone cream and I want you to wear cotton gloves for a few days , then come back and see me . |
| 10 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 11 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 12 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 13 | Despite predictions from the FFA that drift-netting would bring about the collapse of albacore stocks within a few years , the Japanese delegation steadfastly refused to make any concessions . |
| 14 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
| 15 | The front , like the back , was made as two 6ft sections through a few adjustments were made in order to incorporate a door and windows . |
| 16 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 17 | John Mather , chief geochemist at the British Geological Survey , warns that a third of our tapwater could exceed nitrate levels within a few decades . |
| 18 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 19 | Leave to cool on the baking sheets for a few minutes , then transfer to a wire rack to cool . |
| 20 | If you can occupy a unit of Elf archers for a few turns then the exchange can sometimes be worth it . |
| 21 | He examined whether a mispricing triggered index arbitrage transactions within a few minutes . |
| 22 | The ear tufts of a few species do not represent true ears . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 25 | We shall be continuing our more detailed look at factory shops in a few weeks ' time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | China 's emissions of carbon dioxide , principally from its burgeoning coal industry , are increasing to the point where it is expected to become the largest single contributor of greenhouse gases within a few decades . |
| 28 | Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA . |