Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] in [noun sg] " 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 | After a few months in jail for manslaughter , Tepilit could be released : the war effort encouraged flexibility . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 10 | He turned on the guards who held Harry between them , and looked at his prisoner for a few minutes in silence . |
| 11 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 : |
| 27 | Why the first , albeit hypothetical , metazoans never grew beyond a few millimetres in size is not understood . |
| 28 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |
| 29 | I try to explain that Rainbow Rosenbloom has almost nothing but a few genes in common with Anya 's faithless Gittel . |