Example sentences of "around [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 2 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 3 | We pushed each other around for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 5 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 6 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 7 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 8 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 9 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Coda has published its report and accounts each year since 1987 because , Turner says , its products are generally sold to the financial directors of large corporations and they always want the security of knowing how a firm is doing and if it will still be around in a few years . |
| 11 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |