Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] few [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
2 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
3 | And in a few moments she would be in the privacy of her own cabin , snuggling into a warm sleeping-bag on a thick foam mattress with a fabric cover that matched the padded headrest . |
4 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
5 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
6 | In this way you 'd become ill , and in a few months you 'd die . |
7 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |
8 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
9 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
10 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
11 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
12 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
13 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
14 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
15 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
16 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
17 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
18 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |