Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 32 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 33 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 34 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 35 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 36 | Shirley was a good runner , and she caught Heather up a few yards from the fire . |
| 37 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 38 | ‘ I shall leave England in a few months ’ time . ’ |
| 39 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 40 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 41 | I was in Sydney for a few weeks , and had an affair with a broad . |
| 42 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 43 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 44 | ) Not wanting to be away from Previn for long periods , Mia crossed the Atlantic on a few weekends during the shooting . |
| 45 | No but I did say about it Lester Piggott on a few weeks ago . |
| 46 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 47 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
| 48 | Two manuscripts , containing poems and the prose Centuries , were purchased by W. T. Brooke for a few pence from two London book-barrows in the winter of 1896–7 , and were identified as Traherne 's by Bertram Dobell [ q.v . ] . |
| 49 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
| 50 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
| 51 | The train stopped at Spean Bridge for a few moments , the platform was almost deserted . |
| 52 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 53 | Elinor said , ‘ I saw Sam for a few minutes , darling . |
| 54 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 55 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 56 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 57 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 58 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 59 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 60 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |