Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small army of workers will be moving into C&A to start shop fitting in a few weeks ' time . |
| 2 | ‘ Oi already 'ahd 10 on the board boi then , ’ explained the Smallholder , a faint wisp of happy remembrance tugging at a few cheek muscles . |
| 3 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 4 | Well there 's a thing going round a few years ago were n't there with these models , just pay for them to go out there |
| 5 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 6 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 7 | There is no good evidence for the widespread and effective use of any methods of family planning outside a few élite or urban groups until the end of the eighteenth century ( Wilson 1984 , Livi-Bacci 1986 ) , and even then appliance methods do not become important for another century . |