Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Recorders ( of whom there are over seven hundred , plus some five hundred Assistant Recorders ) are practising barristers or solicitors who are required to sit for a few weeks each year .
2 Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night .
3 Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them .
4 Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year .
5 Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made .
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