Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants . |
| 2 | She had a quick look round the room and shoved a few things out of sight in the glory-hole cupboard . |
| 3 | But I fancied feeling the long hard pressure of ocean waves against our hull and , though we were short-handed , I reckoned that a few days out of sight of land would shake us all down quickly . |
| 4 | Thus Lizzie F. was able to take a few years out of work to nurse her mother , an auctioneer 's widow , before returning to work after her mother 's death . |
| 5 | For people from a closed world , I thought dimly , they 're well-informed — if a few years out of date . |
| 6 | Winter Marsh was on the Foulness side of the Roach , marked on my map — a few years out of date — as a restricted area because of the infantry training ground and firing ranges . |
| 7 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 8 | ‘ Twill do Anne no harm to leave off the dances for a few months out of respect for her grandma , ’ Julia said . |