Example sentences of "for a few [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 2 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 3 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 4 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 5 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 6 | He turned on the guards who held Harry between them , and looked at his prisoner for a few minutes in silence . |
| 7 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 9 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 10 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 11 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 12 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 13 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 14 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 15 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 16 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 17 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 18 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 19 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 20 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 21 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 22 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 23 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 24 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 25 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 26 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 27 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |