Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
| 4 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
| 5 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 6 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 7 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 8 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 9 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 10 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 11 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 12 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 13 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 14 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 15 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 16 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 17 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 18 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 19 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 20 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 21 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
| 22 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 23 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 24 | Thus tunicates ( creatures distantly related to vertebrates , and commonly known as ‘ sea-squirts ’ ) naturally accumulate vanadium or titanium which are present in sea water only in a few parts per billion . |
| 25 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 26 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 27 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 28 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 29 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 30 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |