Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] for [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
2 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
3 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
4 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
5 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
6 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
7 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
10 | Beeney was well positioned for the few shots he had to take . |
11 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |