Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 2 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 3 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 4 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
| 5 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 6 | To tell the truth I 'll be glad to escape from the little horrors for a few hours ! |
| 7 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 8 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 9 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 10 | Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months . |
| 11 | It was thought by the producers that the programme slipped out of the top ten ratings for a few weeks because of the squeamishness of some viewers , but this was probably just a seasonal fluctuation . |
| 12 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 13 | The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long . |
| 14 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 15 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 17 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 18 | They blew their cash on Monopoly-money advances for a few celebs . |
| 19 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 20 | Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years . |
| 21 | That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds . |
| 22 | We 'll skip over the next verses for a few moments ; let's turn to another set of pages of the newspaper to see the message from the foreign correspondents about alliances — verses 14 to 19 . |
| 23 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |