Example sentences of "[noun] for a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | She rummaged about in her brown paper carrier-bag for a few minutes more . |
| 32 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 33 | Cos Grant 's gone off to play with his computer for a few minutes . |
| 34 | If you give yourself a shake , change your seating position slightly , open the clear vision panel for some fresh air , change hands on the stick for a few moments and have a sweet or drink , you can snap out of it and start to work normally again . |
| 35 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 36 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 37 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 38 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 39 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 40 | Or concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes , just feeling your stomach rising and falling but without trying to control the breathing in any way . |
| 41 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 42 | So , after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days , the City would have sold sterling anyway . |
| 43 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 44 | ‘ You 'll notice that this ‘ fridge opens from right to left , so the door would conceal the identity of anyone entering the kitchen for a few seconds at least . |
| 45 | It will stop the Yssgaroth for a few hours … . ’ |
| 46 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 47 | I would like more money for a few more things though |
| 48 | Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation . |
| 49 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 50 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 51 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 52 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 53 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 54 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 55 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 56 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 57 | In some cases , this needs to be relieved by placing a drain ( catheter ) in the bladder for a few days . |
| 58 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 59 | Alexia held his glance for a few moments , a furrow between her eyebrows , and dropped the subject . |
| 60 | Sir Geoffrey rang through to his secretary to ask her to bring in tea , and we chatted over tea for a few minutes . |