Example sentences of "[vb past] for [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 Snow settled for a few hours in the Dundee area , causing traffic problems .
5 No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer
6 We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel .
7 They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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