Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 2 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 3 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 4 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 5 | The driver reversed and the whole thing came away , dragged for a few feet by the car . |
| 6 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 7 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 8 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 9 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 11 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 12 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 13 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 14 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 15 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 16 | Her eyes were held for a few moments in the lazy gaze across the desk , then with a conscious effort she blinked herself free , looked down at her notepad . |
| 17 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |