Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 2 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |
| 3 | Native speakers are accustomed to making a lot of assumptions from a few clues . |
| 4 | THE 13-year-old airliner — the newest in El Al 's jumbo fleet — carried hundreds of passengers until a few months ago . |
| 5 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 6 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 7 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 8 | It is still worthwhile building up a stock of components though , and most electronics hobbyists end up with quite a large store of components after a few years . |
| 9 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |