Example sentences of "[adv] for a few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 2 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 3 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 4 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 5 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 6 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 11 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 12 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |