Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 2 | Miki managed to slip in a few ‘ wise words , matey . ’ |
| 3 | It really took hold in a few hours . |
| 4 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 5 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 6 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 7 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 8 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 9 | Next morning , after a 9.15 breakfast , he discussed with Jones his ideas for a speech he had to make in a few weeks ' time at a Literary Fund dinner . |