Example sentences of "a few [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 2 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 3 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 4 | Hurdles of metal , split oak , or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips ( although they are laborious for the latter . |
| 5 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 6 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 7 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 8 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 9 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
| 10 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 11 | Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish . |
| 12 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 13 | There were a few sticks of furniture and the floor was beaten earth , rather cold despite the summer . |
| 14 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 15 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 16 | Quite a few cans of Coke and things like that , quite a few cans for relieving yourself ! |
| 17 | Then , after a few glasses of wine and dessert , who knows , he might be able to have his way with her . |
| 18 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 19 | Have a few glasses of beer or Scotch or … you know … punch ! |
| 20 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
| 21 | I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know , |
| 22 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 23 | There were a few complaints of poverty and the money was slow to come in from Norfolk and Yorkshire . |
| 24 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 25 | ‘ I have seen quite a few races on television and the competition is really good . ’ |
| 26 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 27 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 28 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 29 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
| 30 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |