Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to take a few moments of your time … |
| 2 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 4 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 5 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 6 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 7 | The coroner gently pushed the keeper out before him , took , out his purse and clinked a few coins into his hand . |
| 8 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 9 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 10 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 12 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 13 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 14 | The coroner passed a few remarks in his summing-up on the heavy responsibility shouldered by those placed in loco parentis , but accepted that the girl 's affections had been aroused unintentionally . |
| 15 | A few memories of your adolescence , in Swallow , was pretty safe territory . ’ |
| 16 | A mugger might go to prison for lifting a few pounds from his victim — and so he should . |
| 17 | However , your willingness to come to the aid of your fellow readers is causing a few headaches in our office . |
| 18 | Volunteers need only provide a few hours of their time a week to be trained as a tutor . |
| 19 | I am doing my best , but I wish a few more would give a few hours of their time . , . |
| 20 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
| 21 | Hari returned to the attack , ‘ A few hours of your time , that 's all . ’ |
| 22 | It will only take a few hours of your time . |
| 23 | A few hours of your time can make the Fund a fortune so please phone Jane Milligan . |
| 24 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 25 | It had flown but a few hours in his ownership , and it might be available for a feature in Pilot . |
| 26 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 27 | ANNABEL CROFT , the former British No 1 who reckoned she would be lucky to win just a few games on her return to competitive tennis , today clinched a place in the second round of the Volkswagen National championships in Telford . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've dealt with a few booby-traps in my time . |
| 29 | In other words , I 'll tell a few anecdotes about my life , I 'll expose myself to these students and the people who are interested , and well you know , what 's going on with me and we , we 'll have some fun , so it 'll be anything but dry . |
| 30 | Well so was Agnes — it was probably her local being only a few blocks from her Georgetown address . |