Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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1 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
2 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
3 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
4 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
5 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
6 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
7 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
8 | An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few |
9 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
10 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
11 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
12 | Why are government bonds which still have eleven months to run regarded as liquid , whereas overdrafts granted for a few weeks are not ? |
13 | Lacuna 's eyes closed for a few seconds . |
14 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
15 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
16 | The images on our television screens , emerging from fly-on-the-wall documentaries and dramatised accounts have conveyed a picture of gloom and despair ; of sad lives filled with harrowing moments of violence ; these are places of isolation and fear staffed with a few uncaring , and usually male , nurses . |
17 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
18 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
19 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
20 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
21 | We might enter the room and sing our greeting accompanied by a few dance steps , but ask yourself whether the message might not be obliterated by the way our actions would be interpreted . |
22 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
23 | Carrick has long stopped hoping , calculating that age and immobility caused by a few excess pounds count against him . |
24 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
25 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
26 | With on-site inspections , seals , analysis of materials , electronic surveillance and satellite links they cover some 95 per cent of the world 's nuclear installations outside the five nuclear weapon states — Britain , France , the Soviet Union and the United States , which all allow safeguards monitoring in a few of their civil installations , and China , which has signed a safeguards agreement but has not yet had a single inspection . |
27 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
28 | ‘ Both born in the Ukraine , you 'll notice , ’ Manville explained after a few seconds . |
29 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
30 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |