Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |
2 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
3 | Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers . |
4 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
5 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
6 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |
7 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
8 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
9 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |