Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 10 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 11 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 14 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 15 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 16 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 17 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 20 | This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east . |
| 21 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |
| 22 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |