Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 2 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 3 | If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin . |
| 4 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 5 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 6 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 7 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 8 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 9 | A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole . |
| 10 | His deputy , a Scot , later received a circular from the Food and Dairy Products Committee which extended all expiry dates by a few weeks . |
| 11 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 12 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 13 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |