Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 2 | His final words were that she needed a nice long holiday after a few days in bed . |
| 3 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 4 | After a few months in jail for manslaughter , Tepilit could be released : the war effort encouraged flexibility . |
| 5 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 6 | After a few weeks in Blackpool , Marjorie was overjoyed when sent to America to join the Lollipop Troupe for a year . |
| 7 | The Donora episode , together with smogs in London in 1952 ( causing 4000 deaths ) and New York City in 1953 ( resulting in 200 deaths ; Greenburg et al. , 1962 ) , stimulated plans for a national air pollution conference and the introduction of a few bills in Congress ( none of them passed ) . |
| 8 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 9 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 10 | The trip was a total success , and despite a few hiccups in transit we were able to transport some 5O , OOO items to the main hospital in addition to taking supplies to the towns at Clut-Napoca and Milas . |
| 11 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 12 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 13 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 14 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 15 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 16 | He turned on the guards who held Harry between them , and looked at his prisoner for a few minutes in silence . |
| 17 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 19 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 20 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 21 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 22 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 23 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 24 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 25 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 26 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 27 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 28 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 29 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 30 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |