Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a few [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 2 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |
| 3 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 4 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 5 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 6 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 7 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
| 8 | Brockbank , owner of a Teesside construction company , said : ‘ We have spoken to a few people and expect something to be sorted out by the middle of the week . ’ |
| 9 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 10 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |
| 11 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 12 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 13 | The prevention is new Wella Balsam Intensive Dry Ends Conditioner , regularly massaged into the ends of your hair , left for a few minutes and rinsed out . |
| 14 | Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family . |
| 15 | This alleyway was shut for a few months and we Hello . |
| 16 | The creature staggered for a few seconds and turned to scream . |
| 17 | It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events : |
| 18 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
| 19 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |