Example sentences of "[adv] that [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 2 | A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness . |
| 3 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 4 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 6 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |