Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun pl] [coord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow . |
| 2 | After a few gigs and demos in the late '80s , they eventually — with the help of local soulmates American Music Club — came to the attention of 4AD 's Ivo Watts-Russell , who , enraptured , put out six of these demos from 1989 –'90; as the ‘ Down Colorful Hill ’ album last September . |
| 3 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
| 4 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 5 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Heron ( 1794 ) says that Lewis was destitute of wood except for a few birches and hazels ’ . |
| 7 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
| 8 | just for a few bits and pieces and any extras and |
| 9 | As always , we have to be prepared beforehand , and as we can not start the job without tools , this is the place for a few dos and don'ts . |
| 10 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 11 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 12 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
| 13 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 14 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 15 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 16 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 17 | I did n't want anyone to feel that this diet was a ‘ prison sentence ’ to be endured for a few weeks or months before old habits could be reintroduced . |
| 18 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
| 19 | Those who could live on savings for a few weeks or months were ‘ that rare class ’ . |
| 20 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
| 21 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 22 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 23 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 24 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 25 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 26 | Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . |
| 27 | At all sites at which there have been landings , manned or otherwise , the lunar surface is almost entirely blanketed in fine dust , with a few stones and boulders here and there . |
| 28 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 29 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 30 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |