Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 32 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 33 | The easier option is to settle for looking at Milton and Marvell and a few lyrics by Henry Vaughan . |
| 34 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 35 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 36 | There were a few flashes from Joey Beauchamp , but no goals from anyone . |
| 37 | BRITISH Airways boss Lord King should take a few trips on Richard Branson 's Virgin Atlantic . |
| 38 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 39 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 40 | Within a few days of Prince Albert 's death , young Henry Joseph Titford , aged nine , fell ill with tubercular bronchitis . |
| 41 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 42 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 43 | On the second anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster , a few days after Pan Am obtained leave to file its third-party suit against the US government , Steven Emerson aired an ‘ exclusive ’ on Cable News Network about the wave of speculation linking the DEA with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 44 | Backstage at Leeds Grand Theatre , a few days after Swan Lake 's royal premiere elicited a five-minute standing ovation from the audience , Gable talks long and intelligently about the controversial production . |
| 45 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 46 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 47 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 48 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 49 | the key to the difference … lies in the family — a truth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was pilloried for stating a few years before Martin Luther King 's assassination . |
| 50 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 51 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 52 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 53 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 54 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 55 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 56 | The photos were taken at Prkos , Dalmatia , a few weeks before VE Day . |
| 57 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |
| 58 | After shaving , rub in a few drops of Corvette After-Shave . |
| 59 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 60 | The Automobile Association was established on 26 June 1905 , a few months after Charles Jarrott and William Letts had set up a warning system to advise motorists of police speed traps on some sections of the London to Brighton road . |