Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 2 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 3 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 5 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 6 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 7 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 8 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 9 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 10 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |
| 11 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |