Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 2 | At the time , he was sharing a house with two friends , writer-to-be Don Devlin and producer-in-waiting Harry Gittes on Fountain Avenue , a few streets from Sunset Boulevard . |
| 3 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 6 | 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 . |