Example sentences of "[verb] a few [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 2 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
| 3 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 4 | She has a few men friends at the moment : ‘ They 're all special ’ , she smiles . |
| 5 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 6 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 7 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 8 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 9 | In Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) Hancock et al. ( 1983 ) locate the Variscan Front in a zone of conjugate folds and thrusts a few miles north of the Johnston Thrust . |
| 10 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 11 | Okay , do n't forget to have a few days break over Christmas , do n't work all the time , have a jolly good time . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier . |
| 13 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |
| 14 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 15 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 16 | When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex . |
| 17 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |