Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
2 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
3 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
4 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
5 | To tell the truth I 'll be glad to escape from the little horrors for a few hours ! |
6 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
7 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
8 | Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months . |
9 | The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long . |
10 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
11 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
12 | They blew their cash on Monopoly-money advances for a few celebs . |
13 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
14 | Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years . |
15 | That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds . |
16 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |