Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we could talk to you inside for a few minutes you wo n't regret it . ’ |
| 2 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 3 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 4 | But for the English the system of requisitioning , together with a few ships which might be built in both inland and seaside ports , and those constructed at Bayonne , were sufficient to meet most of their needs . |
| 5 | He delivered the letter , together with a few flowers he 'd nicked from a cemetery . |
| 6 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 8 | And just for a few minutes she savoured the circuitous routes of pleasure . |
| 9 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 10 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 11 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 12 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 13 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 14 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 15 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 16 | The rules described for chariots apply to the Pump Wagon as well with a few exceptions which take into account its unusual construction and crew . |
| 17 | Then for a few days she was quiet . |
| 18 | Then for a few seconds he said nothing . |
| 19 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 20 | Then after a few minutes it all stops . |
| 21 | Gina started scanning the documents , then after a few seconds she gasped , |
| 22 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 23 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 24 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then in a few months you could have a thriving business here , Mr Robinson . |
| 26 | My Donald had terrible injuries , yet for a few minutes he lived . |
| 27 | Apart from a few parts which seem to lack any antecedents , it derives variously , but less closely , from the compositions just mentioned , from the lecture on " Greek Music Drama " January 1870 ) , from the fragments on " The Greek State " and , in a few places , from the earlier preface to Wagner . |
| 28 | Apart from a few nouns which allow a choice of singular or plural concord ( e.g. The committee is/are considering the question ) , the choice of singular in English rules out the possibility of plural reference by default , and vice versa . |
| 29 | Apart from a few weddings she had n't been inside a church for a long while . |
| 30 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |