Example sentences of "for a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 2 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 3 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 4 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 5 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 6 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 7 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 8 | He left the king 's service for a few years after March 1245 ; it was probably during this period that he compiled a metrical grammar for the children of Hamo de Pecche , a Cambridgeshire baron . |
| 9 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 10 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 11 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 12 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 13 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 14 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 15 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 16 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 17 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |