Example sentences of "of [noun] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 2 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 3 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 4 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 5 | As captain of Surrey for a dozen seasons , Fender was expert at making bricks without straw or , to be more precise , winning matches without bowlers on perfect Oval pitches . |
| 6 | Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo . |
| 7 | Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months |
| 8 | A group of prisoners are out of jail for a few days … but the authorities know exactly where they are . |
| 9 | He pointed out a gruelling three-mile running course to Bowe , instructed him to learn it and then said he 'd be going out of town for a few days . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll never find her , ’ he told the girl , Anne , ‘ let's just hang about out of earshot for a few minutes and go back . ’ |
| 11 | Finally , remember to protect oxygenating plants with wide cylinders or domes of netting for a few weeks to prevent any fish from pulling them up before they 're established . |
| 12 | This is merely likely to reinforce this response to travelling Instead , stop the car at a suitable spot and walk away out of sight for a few minutes . |
| 13 | But after the cauliflower curry , a couple of pounds of onion rings and six bottles of Kingfisher , I told him that I needed a place to stay out of sight for a few days . |
| 14 | You may think you have to cut back on the necessities of life for a few days or cancel a treat you had promised yourself and the family . |
| 15 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been out of touch for a few days now . |
| 17 | It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries . |
| 18 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 19 | The first team squad were then told to get out of Glasgow for a few days , prompting a rush for the airport . |
| 20 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 21 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 22 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 23 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 24 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 25 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
| 26 | I suppose also the that the slang term was confined to the esoteric vocabulary of sailors for a hundred years , until the rise of the boffins in World War II brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 27 | ‘ To me , it is just nice to get out of Leeds for a few weeks . |