Example sentences of "[adv] for a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 4 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 5 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 6 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 7 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 8 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 9 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 10 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 11 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 12 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 13 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 14 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 15 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 16 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 17 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 18 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 19 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 20 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 21 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 22 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 23 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 25 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 26 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 27 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 28 | Thankfully , I handed over my pens to Rosemary so that she could finish plotting the latest chart , and escaped outside for a few breaths of fresh air . |
| 29 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 30 | 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 . |