Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 2 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 3 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 4 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
| 5 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 6 | To tell the truth I 'll be glad to escape from the little horrors for a few hours ! |
| 7 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 8 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 9 | Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months . |
| 10 | The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long . |
| 11 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 13 | They blew their cash on Monopoly-money advances for a few celebs . |
| 14 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 15 | Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years . |
| 16 | She tried low-calorie diets for a few week . |
| 17 | That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds . |
| 18 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |