Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen .
2 The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year .
3 Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself .
4 Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office .
5 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
6 Jane 's mum Mary , 50 , was beaten to death for just a few pounds in 1981 .
7 particles are stopped by a sheet of paper and have a range of only a few centimetres in the air .
8 In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol .
9 An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area .
10 Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process .
11 It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing .
12 They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) .
13 The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days .
14 Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast .
15 While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails .
16 This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things .
17 It is found in only a few places in the world .
18 As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser .
19 And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost .
20 Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters .
21 Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe .
22 And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’
23 In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest .
24 SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation .
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