Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.

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1 Together they choose the best plate to display the food , then Linda gets to work in the kitchen preparing the food for photography with a little help from Cheryl Baker .
2 Any Associate is recruited with the prospect that he or she will be eligible for partnership after a few years : business development abilities , superior counselling skills in the field and a deep commitment to the firm and its progress are qualities which will rapidly become determinant .
3 After Fawn Hall , a break was arranged before the second act in which , after excursions by a few minor players , North was to appear .
4 Ann will look after things for a few days .
5 HANS Wagenknecht , 24 , is a physics student from Germany who will be looking for work in a few years .
6 Caught off guard for a few moments , the gap between the two cars widened noticeably , before the cab screeched around a right-hand bend , losing it altogether .
7 He 's expected to be off work for a few days but will be recalled for important Commons votes , including the Maastricht Treaty social chapter next Thursday .
8 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 .
9 To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it .
10 It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre .
11 On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together .
12 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
13 A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’
14 It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures .
15 Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament .
16 There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks .
17 Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants .
18 Murray , from Musselburgh , has returned to Tucson where she is staying at the University of Arizona with a former Musselburgh Grammar PE teacher , Meg Ritchie , the head strength coach there .
19 The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these .
20 The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these .
21 Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years .
22 On the other hand its comparative fragility makes the risk of solicitation of clients by a former employee the more serious .
23 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 .
24 It is perhaps appropriate to stress again that where playwrights require pages of dialogue to explain every factor in the development of the plot , to create a changing atmosphere and to show how the actions affect the actors in the play , dancers can communicate whole passages of dialogue in a few expressive gestures woven into enchaînements .
25 Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months
26 Saouma announced in March 1990 that an independent commission of inquiry under a former Swedish Prime Minister , Ola Ullsten , was to be set up to investigate the slow progress of the action plan for the tropical rainforests , set up in 1985 in collaboration with the UNDP and the World Resources Institute .
27 A group of prisoners are out of jail for a few days … but the authorities know exactly where they are .
28 He pointed out a gruelling three-mile running course to Bowe , instructed him to learn it and then said he 'd be going out of town for a few days .
29 ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’
30 I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail .
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