Example sentences of "[det] [noun] in a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'll bring you some tea in a few minutes , ’ he said . |
2 | Look , I 'm going to be snarled up in another meeting in a few minutes . |
3 | ‘ An Army lorry is due along this road in a few minutes . |
4 | I 'll get you some food in a few minutes , but first let's have your shoe and stocking off . ’ |
5 | My hon. Friend 's question speaks for itself , and no doubt we shall hear more about such matters in a few minutes . |
6 | A saying that conveys much meaning in a few words ; short poem ending in a witty turn of thought . |
7 | I shall deal with that point in a few moments . |
8 | Is it likely that there are other pupils who may turn up in that room in a few minutes ? |
9 | But I 'll touch on the reason why they do n't need those condition in a few minutes . |
10 | And I 'll go into that area in a little bit more detail in a few minutes . |
11 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
12 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
13 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |