Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’
2 He pondered the implications of this for a few days , uncertain whether to welcome it or feel alarmed .
3 Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression .
4 He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river .
5 They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching .
6 He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides .
7 He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience .
8 They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world .
9 Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes .
10 He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house .
11 Should the soil be in need of replenishment all the vines are grubbed up and the land left to fallow for a few years before new vinestock are planted and the entire cycle begins again .
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