Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 3 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 5 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |