Example sentences of "[adj] for a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All for a few inches of bloody zipper ! |
| 7 | ‘ There will be enough wages to keep you all for a few weeks at least , until you have a chance to find another situation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 12 | The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before . |