Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	From our site in Old College it is only a few minutes walk to Parliament House , where the highest criminal and civil courts in Scotland sit , and to the local Sheriff and district court .
2	Just a few minutes walk from town centre & beach .
3	By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times .
4	On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them .
5	For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by .
6	Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them .
7	He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut .
8	Okay , do n't forget to have a few days break over Christmas , do n't work all the time , have a jolly good time .
9	Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town .
10	I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor .
11	I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad .
12	So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm .

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