Example sentences of "a few [noun] in [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 2 | I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know , |
| 3 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 4 | Nearly all of this material was obtained by scooping the top of the surface , or by picking up small rocks up to about fist-size , or from cores a few centimetres in diameter and up to 2.4 metres deep . |
| 5 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 6 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 7 | Jocelyn on the other hand would have preferred a few irregularities in life and so was leaving to live in a battered wives hostel . |
| 8 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |
| 9 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
| 10 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 11 | But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine . |
| 12 | Crowninshield walked a few paces in silence until he was standing under the palms which edged the lagoon . |