Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 2 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 3 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 4 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 5 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 6 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 7 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 8 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 9 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 10 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
| 11 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 12 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 13 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 14 | Beyond Slate Mill , the Chelt weaves its way unhindered for a few miles before reaching the last mill on its course , the little corn one at Norton . |
| 15 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 16 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 17 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 18 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 19 | These results are , however , probably too optimistic as a few cases of reocclusion by hyperplasia through the mesh have been reported with metallic stents placed either percutaneously or endoscopically ( C Liguory , personal communication ) for postsurgical CBD strictures . |
| 20 | Should the soil be in need of replenishment all the vines are grubbed up and the land left to fallow for a few years before new vinestock are planted and the entire cycle begins again . |
| 21 | That is , they fluctuate about a mean with a wavelength small compared with the dimensions of the sample , and the effects of these fluctuations become insignificant within a few wavelengths of the surface . |
| 22 | The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before . |
| 23 | Quite frequently a user will be satisfied with a few items on a topic as long as they are relevant and meet other criteria such as language , date and level . |
| 24 | One , significant in a few parts of Europe , was the growth of a genuine popular military tradition and a willingness to regard the army as a respectable , even honourable , occupation . |