Example sentences of "for a few [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary served behind the counter at Bacon 's for a few hours per week . |
| 2 | Allow to dry for a few hours before painting with gold food colouring . |
| 3 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 4 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 8 | He turned on the guards who held Harry between them , and looked at his prisoner for a few minutes in silence . |
| 9 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 10 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 11 | Hillhead for a few founder by day . |
| 12 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 13 | Most campsites also have huts for hire for a few pounds per night per person . |
| 14 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 15 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 16 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |
| 20 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 21 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 22 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 30 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |