Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] for [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 2 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 3 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 4 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 5 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |