Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 3 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 4 | Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests . |
| 5 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 6 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 7 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |
| 8 | We feel that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to introduce a few question marks into the fundamental assumption of the discourse , and it is our hope that this book will provide some such . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 11 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier . |
| 13 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 14 | Only a few hours drive from Glasgow to a world of serenity and tranquillity . |
| 15 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 16 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 17 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 18 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 19 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 20 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 21 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 22 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 23 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 24 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 25 | But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this . |
| 26 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 27 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 28 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 29 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 30 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |