Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital letters : Use these only for proper names and for a few dignitaries such as Her Majesty the Queen , Prime Minister , Archbishop and Field Marshal . |
| 2 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 3 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 4 | He then pointed out that the financial-management literature concentrated exclusively on stage 4 , and with a few exceptions this is still the situation today . |
| 5 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 6 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 7 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 8 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 9 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 10 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 11 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |