Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 2 | I will , therefore , concentrate on a few problem shapes and situations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Henry will run through a few soul favourites , backed by the Womack & Womack Band . |
| 5 | And that will lead to a few mist patches later on . |
| 6 | Yet nobody , save for a few free-market purists , seems to be worrying — least of all the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission , whose office is located next to the finance ministry . |
| 7 | 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 . |