Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 3 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 4 | What I think of as a few steps along the beach in the Isle of Wight suffices to pass the Middle Oligocene , but I find this amounts to untold thousands of feet of sediment in New Guinea . |
| 5 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 6 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 7 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 8 | Besides , what would your one shining summer be like without a few interesting male specimens in it ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 11 | pigeon hole , you know it 's just like bit of , scrap of paper with like a few names on it |
| 12 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 13 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 14 | A market for imported grapefruit , that grew from zero to several million dollars worth in a few months , was destroyed even more quickly . |
| 15 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
| 16 | This afternoon there was a preview from from a few old favorites . |
| 17 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 18 | The warts are all there too for without a few blemishes I think it would be a rather dull story . |
| 19 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 20 | I do n't really want to go on to for a few minutes . |
| 21 | I could n't think of anything I 'd promised anybody and I had n't anything musical on for a few days , so that was all right . |
| 22 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 23 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 24 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 25 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 26 | The abundance of records enabled Hipparchus to use the properties of similar triangles and sine tables to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy , to within a few miles of today 's agreed figures . |
| 27 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 28 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 29 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 30 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |