Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 2 | Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils . |
| 3 | She rummaged about in her brown paper carrier-bag for a few minutes more . |
| 4 | London Scottish may have been out of top league rugby for a few seasons , but they 're a real threat to the cherry and whites . |
| 5 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 6 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 7 | It 's a good idea to run your central heating pump for a few minutes a week in summer to prevent it from seizing up when the system is not in use . |
| 8 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 9 | With a typical load resistance of a few kΟ , the magnitude of the signal voltage gain is around 100 . |
| 10 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 11 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 12 | In his desperation Tam gave the name of a Black Watch friend , got the job and donned the Black Watch kilt for a few coppers an hour the shame of it . |
| 13 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 14 | Journalists can digest a story from a good press release in a few minutes , while attending a press conference is going to take an hour , not including travelling time . |
| 15 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
| 16 | This is a no-fuss back-up system for a few individual users or for smallish networks . |
| 17 | True , there was something unbearably starchy about much of the supposed ‘ informality ’ in the film , but it appeared to have cast a full tungsten glare over a few of the secrets of the magicians . |
| 18 | The girl and her boyfriend were delighted by the new arrangement and they continued their happy sex life until a few months later when the mother announced that she was pregnant . |
| 19 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
| 20 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 21 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
| 23 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 24 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 25 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 26 | You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ? |
| 27 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 28 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 29 | It was told to ‘ verify ’ the Angolan peace process with a few hundred unarmed observers , and given neither the instructions nor the resources to disarm the fighters . |
| 30 | Fired by the skills of Steve Davis , I 'll go along to one of the local snooker halls for a few frames . |