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

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1 Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters .
2 It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister .
3 There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood .
4 Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’
5 Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing .
6 We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur .
7 One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor .
8 I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke .
9 The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death .
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