Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 2 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 3 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 4 | Small areas , finishing touches and a few stitches in a different type of yarn are easy to add once the knitting is completed . |
| 5 | The authority 's sewage works vary in size from those producing many millions of gallons of treated effluent a day to those serving a few houses in a rural area where the discharge may be the merest trickle . |
| 6 | You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo . |
| 7 | Use an angled mouth pipette to localize a few embryos in a small drop of infiltration mix in the centre of the flat base of a BEEM capsule , fill up the capsule with Spurr and polymerize at 60C for 16 h . |
| 8 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 9 | Once they have pasted a few posters in a Punjabi town , the instruction on them becomes law . |
| 10 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 11 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 12 | Fancy teaming up to shoot a few goals in a dynamic , fast growing team sport ? |
| 13 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 14 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |
| 15 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 16 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 17 | A few berries in a rich wine sauce for goose or chicken adds a delicious note . |