Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 2 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 3 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 4 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 5 | Durbeyfield walked on a few steps in a dream , then sat down with his basket . |
| 6 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 7 | Snow settled for a few hours in the Dundee area , causing traffic problems . |
| 8 | Well we said , did you not visit and Morpeth and Annick well we we went round a few castles in that area to keep out the rain . |
| 9 | Victoria 's open face , freckled from a few weeks in the Mediterranean sun , was clouded with bewilderment . |
| 10 | Why the first , albeit hypothetical , metazoans never grew beyond a few millimetres in size is not understood . |
| 11 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 12 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 13 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 14 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 15 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 16 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 17 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 18 | The county members and those who sat for the few boroughs in which the franchise was reasonably wide were normally the most independent of eighteenth-century MPs ; but they were in a minority . |