Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 2 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 3 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 4 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 5 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 6 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 7 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 8 | Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them . |
| 9 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 10 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 11 | All for a few inches of bloody zipper ! |
| 12 | ‘ There will be enough wages to keep you all for a few weeks at least , until you have a chance to find another situation . |
| 13 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 14 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |
| 15 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 16 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
| 17 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 18 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 19 | We should have that in a few minutes on the , the quotes side , Mark 's gon na bring them in to me . |
| 20 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 21 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 22 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 23 | Beyond Slate Mill , the Chelt weaves its way unhindered for a few miles before reaching the last mill on its course , the little corn one at Norton . |
| 24 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 25 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 26 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 27 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 28 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 29 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 30 | These results are , however , probably too optimistic as a few cases of reocclusion by hyperplasia through the mesh have been reported with metallic stents placed either percutaneously or endoscopically ( C Liguory , personal communication ) for postsurgical CBD strictures . |