Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [subord] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be taken a few hours before sleep is required in the new time zone . |
| 2 | Delays are unlikely to exceed a few minutes while capacity is maximised . |
| 3 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 4 | A few days before discharge is expected , any services required are arranged and any drugs , dressings and appliances ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma equipment ) are ordered . |
| 5 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
| 6 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 7 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 8 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 9 | However , delay sowing for a few weeks if conditions are poor . |
| 10 | These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published . |
| 11 | The recession and a consequent loss of business is forcing the closure of Fosters menswear shop in Baxtergate , Whitby , only a few months after plans were passed for extensive modernisation work to be carried out . |
| 12 | In fact Carter 's style as president was probably closest to that of Woodrow Wilson who , as it happens , died a few months before Carter was born in 1924 . |