Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 2 | When the girl 's parents denied the engagement , the boy was beaten unconscious and died a few hours later in hospital . |
| 3 | Not only can marked variation in embryonic development be observed even within litters but , during such a dynamic phase of morphogenetic change , embryos only a few hours apart in age may be significantly different in their developmental state . |
| 4 | When the prime minister arrives at the Palace for the weekly audience , the private secretary acts as host and spends a few minutes beforehand in conversation . |
| 5 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
| 6 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
| 7 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 8 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 9 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |
| 10 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |
| 11 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |