Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [noun prp] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 2 | Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players . |
| 3 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 4 | In a few words Travis had blocked her line of retreat . |
| 5 | On a few occasions Frankie had found the courage to scale the perimeter wall to look for rats in the mouth of the tunnel . |