Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 32 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 33 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 34 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 35 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 36 | Modern British architects worth their salt , or future knighthoods , can be counted on a few colour spreads of the Prince of Wales 's bestselling book A Vision of Britain . |
| 37 | He was a stout-hearted , even an obstinate man , not to be deterred by a few bruises , and not to surrender his charge without a struggle . |
| 38 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 39 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 40 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |
| 41 | speed of execution — 100 years in the life of a watershed can be simulated in a few seconds of computer time , and |
| 42 | Hotel parking is available and although there is n't an in-house restaurant , there are plenty of mouth-watering menus to be found within a few minutes stroll . |
| 43 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 44 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 45 | It 'd be gone within a few hours . |
| 46 | Executives at Alexandra Towing are now waiting to hear further details of the move , which could be finalised within a few weeks . |
| 47 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 48 | Also in the US , two unnamed systems integrators have agreed to take the notebook on-board — they 'll also be announced in a few weeks ' time . |
| 49 | The company claims that the time taken to generate and integrate the management of , for example , a network hub can be cut to a few hours . |
| 50 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 51 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 52 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 53 | But when the edge had dulled it was no problem and on the harder wood a burn mark could be left in a few seconds if very little pressure was applied with the cutter just spinning on the surface . |
| 54 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 55 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 56 | Certain structural aspects of HARPY 's finite-state network allows many hypotheses to be eliminated after a few words . |
| 57 | Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months . |
| 58 | If we wish to increase growth rate in pigs , for example , we can try breeding only from the fastest growing pigs , and a whole population of fast growing pigs may be obtained in a few generations , if growth rate is heritable . |
| 59 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 60 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |