Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 2 | With little desire to talk , she walked beside Tom to his car — the sports car this time , as he had exchanged keys with Bill a few minutes ago . |
| 3 | Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later . |
| 4 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 5 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 6 | The team included the Celtic goalkeeper Johnny Thomson playing one of his last games for Scotland a few months before his tragic death . |
| 7 | He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier . |