Example sentences of "[pron] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
| 2 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 3 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
| 4 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 5 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 6 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 7 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 8 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 10 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 11 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 12 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 13 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 14 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 15 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 16 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 17 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |
| 18 | She a few times . |
| 19 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 20 | It had been Lewis himself who a few minutes earlier had taken the call from the Met . |
| 21 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 23 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 24 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 25 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 26 | Harry Kroto is a chemist at the University , who a few years ago , in collaboration with a colleague and a student , discovered something about interstellar space that has forced scientists to reconsider their views . |
| 27 | Bedford ..... 6 Wasps ...... 57 BEDFORD have now conceded 117 points in their last two matches and this latest reversal served only to illustrate the plight of a club who a few months ago were celebrating their arrival in the Courage First Division . |
| 28 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 29 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 30 | Maybe it caused you a few problems , but you might be about to get your reward in heaven . |