Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
2 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
3 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
4 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
5 | For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army . |
6 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |
7 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
8 | With our all-purpose Lloyds bankcard ( Visa/cashcard/ cheque guarantee card ) we were able to obtain up to our daily maximum limit on any one day , in US$ , within a few minutes at the bank . |
9 | But , put in a few pages at the end of chapters , they are rather an ‘ add-on ’ . |
10 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
11 | But the CTCs have been criticised by opponents who say the Government has lavished money on a few pupils at the expense of others throughout the country . |