Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 3 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 4 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |
| 5 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 6 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 7 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 8 | It was used for a few emergency landings by Royal Air Force planes during the recent Falklands War . |
| 9 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |
| 10 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 11 | He used to deliver messages for a few club owners on this patch , ’ Culley said . |
| 12 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 13 | Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French . |
| 14 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 15 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 16 | Any one of the three main political parties could take the seat because they were within a few percentage points of each other at the last election . |
| 17 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 18 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 19 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 20 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 21 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 22 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 23 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 24 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 25 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 26 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 27 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 28 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 29 | See you in a few years time with fucking . |
| 30 | Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests . |