Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 2 | A few dozen herring here or there ; nobody troubled : every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string . |
| 3 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 4 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 5 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |