Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were held for a few moments in the lazy gaze across the desk , then with a conscious effort she blinked herself free , looked down at her notepad . |
| 2 | He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force . |
| 3 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 4 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 5 | Most ‘ educationists ’ subscribed to the same principle , although a few teachers in the National Association of Labour Teachers and the TUC had begun to look beyond ‘ equality of opportunity ’ to equality of provision . |
| 6 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |
| 7 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 8 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 9 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 10 | The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister . |
| 11 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 12 | Perfectly safe , until I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and found myself , the only female , in a street lined with male prostitutes . |
| 13 | The following summary of ideas on stress placement in nouns , verbs and adjectives is an attempt to present a few rules in the simplest possible form . |
| 14 | ‘ Did that swift eclipse torture you ? /A star at eighteen and then — suddenly gone/ down to a few lines in the back page of a teenage annual/oh but I remember you/I looked up to you ’ — ‘ Little Man , What Now ? ’ . |
| 15 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 17 | There were a few villages in the lower hills and , further up , small groups of round mud-huts , each housing a couple of families , were dotted across the fields . |
| 18 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 19 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 20 | I just put a few things in the wrong place because I did n't read , you know , put them in too soon . |
| 21 | It brings out the old policies of Enoch Powell way back and there are still a few Powellites in the Tory party . |
| 22 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 23 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 24 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 25 | In most cases , there are insufficient surviving remains to make it worthwhile conserving the site for public display : if it has been fully excavated , all that may remain to be seen are , literally , a few depressions in the natural subsoil , even if what was excavated above was quite spectacular . |
| 26 | Before the war they were split between two empires : Ottoman and Persian After 1925 they were split between four states : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria ( there are also a few Kurds in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 27 | For those with bags of energy left after exploring the valley , try the local night club , or a few beers in the local pub — The Londoner ! |
| 28 | Extend the Taj Triangle Tour by spending a few days in the fascinating city of Kathmandu . |
| 29 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 30 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |