Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 2 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 3 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 4 | In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days . |
| 5 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 6 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 7 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 8 | Some of these programs belong to the Shareware scheme which means that they can be used and evaluated for a few weeks , and you pay the registration fee only if you continue to use them . |
| 9 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 10 | He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds . |
| 11 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 12 | On the minus side , the economy is small , unbalanced and concentrated in a few sectors , particularly electronics , financial services , textiles , whisky and oil . |
| 13 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 14 | It was about a 70-mile drive away , if not more , and I went up there and was given a drink and introduced to a few people , and then I opened the fête … and never saw anyone again . |
| 15 | Patrick awoke briefly during the night and lay awake , confused and troubled for a few moments until he realized where he was . |
| 16 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |
| 17 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 18 | Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing . |
| 19 | Instructions for the folding part of the handle referred to an earlier model with a spindle ; but the wingnut handles were obviously fixed by a bolt , and released by a few turns when the handle needed to be folded for storage . |
| 20 | Red-faced and embarrassed , Mr Aird cleared his throat and launched into a few bars from Jean Sibelius Finlandia . |
| 21 | Robins found that Geiger readings there were halved when taken within a few feet of the ring of stones , as if the ring acted as a form of ‘ shield ’ . |