Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |
| 2 | Monica made her comment to Tweed when Buchanan and Warden had left after a few more minutes ' conversation . |
| 3 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 4 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 5 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 6 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 7 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 8 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 9 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |