Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll be sending one of our own men in in a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 3 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 4 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 5 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Parkinson is with Sir Ewen in the big house , but he 'll be along in a few minutes , ’ Bob informed them after Maggie explained why she was there . |
| 7 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 8 | But , and I 'm not promising , the sun might break through in a few favoured spots . |
| 9 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 10 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 11 | It was over in a few seconds . |
| 12 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 13 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |
| 14 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 15 | I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most . |
| 16 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 17 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll switch itself off in a few seconds . ’ |
| 19 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 20 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |
| 21 | Can I please because I have to be off in a few minutes . |
| 22 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 23 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 24 | Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands . |
| 25 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 26 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 27 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 28 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 29 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 30 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |