Example sentences of "[vb base] in a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home the sudden switch from inflation and boom to stagnation and slump in a few months made changes in policy inevitable . |
| 2 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 3 | It really took hold in a few hours . |
| 4 | In the belt extending from Hoxne to the Orwell estuary the percentage of assessments below £2 hardly exceeded twenty , save in a few places , and overall more were on goods than on earnings . |
| 5 | You know in a few minutes . |
| 6 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 7 | If the symptoms disappear in a few days no more medicine is needed , but if the symptoms persist dosing continues as before to complete the cure §281 . |
| 8 | Rather , indicate in a few words how the rest of your answer would proceed if you had time . |
| 9 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 10 | Some women have minor side-effects which normally pass in a few months . |
| 11 | After shaving , rub in a few drops of Corvette After-Shave . |
| 12 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 13 | and try and get out of them what skills , you know , and chuck in a few ideas of your own , you know , |
| 14 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 15 | All they had to do was pile the earth back on top of the coffin and toss in a few bulbs of garlic just to be on the safe side . |
| 16 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 17 | Differentiate a few quotients , get the hang of it , throw in a few sines and coses . |
| 18 | It was the oldest trick in the book : lighten the atmosphere stir in a few laughs — and throw the fast ball . |