Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] for a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means placing the plant material in a base of oil or fat and leaving the mixture in the sun for a few days . |
| 2 | During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years . |
| 3 | So I lay in the dinghy for a few minutes , to recover myself , and think . |
| 4 | They sat in the car for a few minutes without speaking . |
| 5 | She stood in the foyer for a few minutes , jotting into her notebook the things he had told her . |
| 6 | After fertilization has taken place , the zygote is cultured in the laboratory for a few days and the proembryo is then placed in the woman 's uterus . |
| 7 | Pete listened in the hallway for a few seconds , and then he knocked on her door . |
| 8 | The thought dampened her mood , and , after turning the lights out , she sat in the dimness for a few moments , collecting her thoughts . |
| 9 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 10 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 11 | In some cases , this needs to be relieved by placing a drain ( catheter ) in the bladder for a few days . |
| 12 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 13 | The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes . |
| 14 | For obvious reasons , people receiving injections of the drug must stay in the dark for a few days , and keep out of direct sunlight for a month , or longer . |
| 15 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 16 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 17 | Vimla now took centre-stage , while Panna grabbed an unwilling daughter-in-law and whirled her around in a waltz for a few steps . |
| 18 | The latter process is made easier by placing the slide in a refrigerator for a few minutes . |
| 19 | Then he dozed in an armchair for a few hours , until he was too cold and stiff to bear it any longer , when he got up and made tea for everyone , and discovered that there was nothing to eat for breakfast . |