Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 32 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 33 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 34 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 35 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 36 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 37 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 38 | How distant that sounds and , on a train , it is a full 19 hours , with a few stops in Germany on the way . |
| 39 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 40 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 41 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 42 | He also said that " we are going to show how a revolution can be enacted through democratic principles , how democracy can be practised with one party " and announced that the National Assembly would reassemble within a few months in order to approve an electoral law which would lead to the holding of direct legislative elections in 1993 . |
| 43 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |
| 44 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 45 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 46 | Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany . |
| 47 | Why the first , albeit hypothetical , metazoans never grew beyond a few millimetres in size is not understood . |
| 48 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |
| 49 | I try to explain that Rainbow Rosenbloom has almost nothing but a few genes in common with Anya 's faithless Gittel . |
| 50 | Packed with meat ( 92% min ) , they are gutsy and flavourful and can be bought at a few outlets in London and Oxfordshire , or direct ( no mail order ) from Bangers Galore , |
| 51 | The list of honorary and corresponding members included gentlemen living in 30 English counties , and at a few places in Scotland and Wales . |