Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 2 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 3 | After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 5 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 6 | Susan caught up with her after a few words with Mr Darling . |
| 7 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 8 | After a few weeks in Blackpool , Marjorie was overjoyed when sent to America to join the Lollipop Troupe for a year . |
| 9 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 10 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 11 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 12 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 13 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 14 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 15 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 16 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 17 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 18 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 19 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 20 | He left the king 's service for a few years after March 1245 ; it was probably during this period that he compiled a metrical grammar for the children of Hamo de Pecche , a Cambridgeshire baron . |
| 21 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 22 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 23 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 24 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 25 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 26 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 27 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 28 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 29 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 30 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |