Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure . |
| 2 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 3 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 4 | ‘ She wakes for a few minutes and then is unconscious for several hours , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 5 | If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin . |
| 6 | Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’ |
| 7 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 8 | Even with a well performed sphincterotomy of judivious size , unpredictable harmorrhage still occurs in a few cases . |
| 9 | It is not known why this occurs in a few animals after strangles infection . |
| 10 | Steve Richardson passes on a few tips on how to lower your scores by improving your on-course tactics . |
| 11 | The group then reassembles for a few days to allow everyone to present their trial training session . |
| 12 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 13 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 14 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 16 | Poor appetite , stops feeding and screams after a few minutes |
| 17 | They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time . |
| 18 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 19 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 20 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 21 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 22 | The French Commandos have the heavy baseplate out of the ground and the mortar assembled and in action in what seems like a few seconds . |
| 23 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 24 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 25 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 26 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 27 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
| 28 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 29 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |
| 30 | His deputy , a Scot , later received a circular from the Food and Dairy Products Committee which extended all expiry dates by a few weeks . |