Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 2 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 3 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 4 | And then they 'd have a big auction for a few pounds where Dad used to do the auctioning and since he was a sergeant major one could hear his voice . |
| 5 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 6 | They walked in silence for a few moments then Chris said , ‘ Maureen thinks I should hate Beryl . |
| 7 | For a few seconds even Morse was lost a little ; but then he grinned acknowledgement : ‘ You 're a cultured sod . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , place cotton wool soaked in remover over each nail , hold for a few seconds then life off . |
| 9 | Within a few years both Port and Brimscombe Mills were again run together , by P.C. Evans and Sons . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 11 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 12 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 13 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 14 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 15 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |