Example sentences of "a few [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you possibly spare me a few moments in private ? |
| 2 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 3 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 4 | ‘ If you ask me , he simply wants a few moments in sane and pleasant company , away from the madhouse . ’ |
| 5 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 7 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 8 | Visit the area several times and you will find yourself being attracted to a few sites in particular : these are the places where you can meet the earth spirit . |
| 9 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 10 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |
| 11 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |
| 12 | Probably a few friends in high places but it would be better to recruit them instead . |
| 13 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 14 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 15 | Having two types of procedure , command and processing , that only have a few functions in common , is annoying . |
| 16 | At best they had a few lectures in coastal pilotage before joining the minor craft — those carried aboard ships . |
| 17 | An early attempt at defining intonation units was that of Jones ( 1975 , Chapter 30 ) , where stretches of speech between pauses were called ‘ breath-groups ’ and marked with double vertical lines , and smaller stretches within these , called ‘ sense-groups ’ , bounded by places where ‘ pauses may be made ’ and consisting of ‘ a few words in close grammatical connexion ’ . |
| 18 | So , it might be asked , why is it important to examine in detail what , after all , merits little more than a few paragraphs in conventional histories of education ? |
| 19 | There are a few examples in other structures of pairs of carboxyl acids within hydrogen bond distance of each other but no other example of a cluster of four carboxyl groups as in R2 . |
| 20 | Conversely , then , a new variety can be formed if this conservative action of crossing is circumvented by reproductive isolation of a few individuals in new conditions , whether that isolation arises with or without geographical segregation . |
| 21 | I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all . |
| 22 | THE stock market yesterday stayed a few points in positive territory for most of the session in advance of the Budget and as a wave of company results gave dealers plenty to digest . |
| 23 | But a few lessons in long-term planning can save you a caning . |
| 24 | Additionally , there are a few lessons in positive thinking that will effectively change the way you look at yourself , as well as those around you . |
| 25 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 26 | A few patients in surgical wards are found to have inoperable conditions or conditions for which only palliative surgery can be performed . |
| 27 | A few marshes in western France are still managed very strictly as commons . |
| 28 | My survey revealed that a few people in Sukuma-speaking areas still had difficulty in answering questions in Swahili ; others who understood Swahili nonetheless asked to be interviewed in Sukuma . |
| 29 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 30 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |