Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why are government bonds which still have eleven months to run regarded as liquid , whereas overdrafts granted for a few weeks are not ? |
| 2 | Lacuna 's eyes closed for a few seconds . |
| 3 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 4 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 5 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 6 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |
| 7 | However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year . |
| 8 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 9 | The hostile groups outside Fascist meetings increased from a few protesters to thousands of demonstrators on certain widely reported occasions . |
| 10 | The curtains bowed in a few yards away , almost touching the window-sill , the movement like a wave . |
| 11 | But as long as you spot the early signs you should be okay — just keep the red bits covered for a few days . |
| 12 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 13 | All additions concentrated in a few areas This can occur when , for example , recruitment campaigns for customers have taken place in a limited area , or a competitor has gone out of business . |
| 14 | Cases of equal numbers of additions to each area and all additions concentrated in a few areas are depicted schematically in Fig. 7.9 . |
| 15 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 16 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 17 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |