Example sentences of "for a few [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 32 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 33 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 34 | For most words in any given language , the variation in form will adhere to some regular pattern ; for a few words the variation will be irregular or only partly regular . |
| 35 | In his desperation Tam gave the name of a Black Watch friend , got the job and donned the Black Watch kilt for a few coppers an hour the shame of it . |
| 36 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |