Example sentences of "[conj] for a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 2 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 3 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 4 | I do n't believe I have anything else , except for a few photocopies . |
| 5 | Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | In the end , the mini-LP initially catalogued as Reception Records ' REC 010 , did not actually leave Red Rhino 's York warehouse , except for a few copies . |
| 7 | Except for a few stickers falling off , it worked reasonably well . |
| 8 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 9 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 10 | Those who did marry all left the trade , except for a few cases where the husband was a serving soldier abroad during the war . |
| 11 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 12 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 13 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Heron ( 1794 ) says that Lewis was destitute of wood except for a few birches and hazels ’ . |
| 15 | To guard their roots the spaces were covered with gratings except for a few inches round the trunk . |
| 16 | Of ground-living mammals in Malaya over half of the species are forest animals and the elimination of the forest leads to the elimination of almost all the mammalian fauna except for a few rats . |
| 17 | I must establish my philosophical credentials a bit ; to that end I have finished , except for a few touches , a short work , " The Origin and End of Tragedy " ( Ursprung und Ziel der Tragödie ) … |
| 18 | I have finished , except for a few touches , a short work , " The Origin and End of Tragedy " … |
| 19 | They found the Springall house deserted except for a few servants . |
| 20 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 21 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 22 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 23 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 24 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 25 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 26 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 27 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 28 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 29 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 30 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |