Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later we can have a chat about this business over a few drinks . ’ |
| 2 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |
| 3 | She could contain her dislike for this character for a few days , could n't she ? |
| 4 | Sharing the beauty and tranquillity of this location with a few other houses , a former farm building was initially converted into a restaurant in about 1970 and rapidly acquired local fame thanks to the good cooking and the able management of the owner who gave it his own name ‘ Leonetto ’ . |
| 5 | The chemistry of this process with a few modifications , will probably form the basis of future gasification plants . |
| 6 | I shall deal with that point in a few moments . |
| 7 | In business they conferred with each other for a few minutes and then made their offer . |
| 8 | ‘ An Army lorry is due along this road in a few minutes . |
| 9 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
| 10 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
| 11 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 12 | Minimal effort was made to assist peasants in improving their farming methods : the attempts in this direction of a few dynamic zemstvos only highlighted how little was being done in the Empire as a whole . |
| 13 | Hold your hands in this position for a few moments , then gently move them away . |
| 14 | Instead they were shunted to another bank for a few days . |
| 15 | In addition to the permanent taps , the monitors have been able to tap a conversation on any telephone within a few seconds by means of the TKO device . |
| 16 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 17 | They stared glumly at each other for a few moments , before Laura shrugged . |
| 18 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
| 19 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |