Example sentences of "[conj] a few [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 2 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 3 | Lousy beer , but a good jacket with more than a few memories of a young lady from Boulder , Colorado , attached to it . |
| 4 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 5 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 6 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 7 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 8 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 9 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 10 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 11 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 12 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 13 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 14 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 15 | It was hard for him to scrape together more than a few coppers at a time . |
| 16 | The Jimmy Young Show 's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public . |
| 17 | Small areas , finishing touches and a few stitches in a different type of yarn are easy to add once the knitting is completed . |
| 18 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |
| 19 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |