Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They warn that the number of lakes affected may double within a few decades unless air pollution in Europe is halved . |
| 2 | It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks . |
| 3 | This is what Crane Holdings should do within a few months . |
| 4 | Your holiday abroad should follow within a few months while your memory is fresh . |
| 5 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | The dog should return within a few minutes , but if not , search in the direction where you last saw your pet . |
| 7 | Clerk to the justices Robert Whitehouse said the £400 screens should arrive within a few weeks . |
| 8 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 9 | Also ‘ areas ’ may refer to a few kms 2 or to whole countries , so that areas or pockets of declining food production may coexist with , and have no social access to , other areas of increased food production . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 11 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 12 | If travelling in a car , you might stop for a few minutes as a penalty , refusing to speak to the child until he behaves . |
| 13 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll leave in a few minutes and be with you in about half an hour . |
| 15 | You might get through a few months , gross good luck see you to a year , but from then on the odds against survival lengthened considerably . |
| 16 | This part of the conversation has been wiped off , it 'll continue in a few minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't worry , it 'll decay within a few days . ’ |
| 18 | Not a defence that could stop thousands of missiles , but one that might deal with a few terror weapons lobbed around the planet by third-world undesirables . |
| 19 | Erm , let's look at a few quotations . |
| 20 | Well let's look at a few examples I 'll take the Korean war of nineteen fifty to fifty three , the Cuban missiles crisis which , although was not an actual war , very nearly threatened a nuclear war , of nineteen sixty two and the Vietnam war of nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy two . |
| 21 | Well , let's look for a few moments this morning at one such incident when Jesus did do it and it 's in er , Mark chapter four , I want to read a few verses from there , Mark chapter four . |
| 22 | But although this strategy may work for a few years , there are few parishes which have the physical space for more than two or three new congregations . |
| 23 | Green water of a consistency like pea soup is familiar to most pool owners , for even in well established pools this condition may occur for a few days during early spring when the water is warmed by the sun , so algae appears before the submerged oxygenating plants have had a chance to start growing again . |
| 24 | For example , a reaction to a particular food may occur within a few minutes of eating a food , or after a day or two . |
| 25 | if you would n't mind in the meantime if you could think of a few names you know as you 're going about your daily business . |
| 26 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 27 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 28 | If a man 's face could age in a few seconds , his did . |
| 29 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 30 | And then they 'd call for a few days afterwards er whatever . |