Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 2 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 3 | In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention . |
| 4 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 5 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 6 | For a few dogs such as Sombro , the drives of adolescence persist into adulthood and while the dog can be okay while fit and young , life can get increasingly tough as they get older . |
| 7 | Capital letters : Use these only for proper names and for a few dignitaries such as Her Majesty the Queen , Prime Minister , Archbishop and Field Marshal . |
| 8 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 9 | It remained his seat for a few months short of thirty years . |
| 10 | Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ . |
| 11 | Within a few years most of its nominal 100 ships of the line were unfit for sea , although by 1770 a new conflict with Spain over the Falkland Islands seemed likely . |
| 12 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
| 13 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 14 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 15 | Further , in a few cases such as Lepisma ( Sulc , 1927 ) and Hemidoecus ( Evans , 1939 ) the paranotal expansions are supplied with tracheae arranged in a pattern somewhat similar to that in developing wing-pads ( Fig. 40 ) . |
| 16 | In a few cases such as at Cuxton and Snodland , the positions of the churches do correspond with the remains of large Roman Villas . |
| 17 | In a few rings one of the carbons is replaced by an atom of oxygen , nitrogen or sulphur which can cause problems . |
| 18 | These range from small increases in weak acute phase proteins such as C3 complement , and a two to fourfold rise in proteins such as α 1 -acid glycoprotein ( serum orosomucoid for the traditionalist ) , fibrinogen , and α 1 -antitrypsin , to spectacular rises in a few proteins such as CRP and amyloid A-associated protein . |
| 19 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |