Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 32 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
| 33 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 34 | Or concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes , just feeling your stomach rising and falling but without trying to control the breathing in any way . |
| 35 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 36 | So , after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days , the City would have sold sterling anyway . |
| 37 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 38 | ‘ You 'll notice that this ‘ fridge opens from right to left , so the door would conceal the identity of anyone entering the kitchen for a few seconds at least . |
| 39 | It will stop the Yssgaroth for a few hours … . ’ |
| 40 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 41 | Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation . |
| 42 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 43 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 44 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 45 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 46 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 47 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 48 | You 'll see there that like most of his kind he was detained without trial for a few months under Regulation 18B-in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 49 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 50 | If there is no luck after a few days or the child is showing antagonism to the potty then the parent should leave the training for a few more weeks . |
| 51 | Pigs in an infected herd become immune to re-infection after a few weeks . |
| 52 | " The Chairman after a few remarks called upon Mr. Borland to read his Essay on " Labour , " after which all the Members in rotation were requested to give their views on the subject . |
| 53 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 54 | In some cases , this needs to be relieved by placing a drain ( catheter ) in the bladder for a few days . |
| 55 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 56 | Alexia held his glance for a few moments , a furrow between her eyebrows , and dropped the subject . |
| 57 | Sir Geoffrey rang through to his secretary to ask her to bring in tea , and we chatted over tea for a few minutes . |
| 58 | Martin Ward got to his feet , dusting off sand , and they held each others ' eyes for a few moments without speaking . |
| 59 | For suppose that he , tired as he must be , closes his eyes for a few moments . |
| 60 | At least the manager did n't pounce on me just because I shut my eyes for a few moments . ’ |