Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 2 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 3 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 4 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 5 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 6 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |
| 7 | He ended up riding a few jumpers in France so its erm although he 's a good trainer now I do n't think he 's an authority and it 's poppycock er frankly . |
| 8 | The Bhundu Boys have recently played a few dates in Spain and have toured in Australia , America and Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think a few crocuses in Hyde Park are going to make much difference , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 10 | Seems there are quite a few singers in New York already . ’ |
| 11 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 12 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
| 13 | PULLED A FEW STROKES IN CUBA , RUSSIA , KUWAIT , I UNDERSTAND — SO ! |
| 14 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 15 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 16 | How distant that sounds and , on a train , it is a full 19 hours , with a few stops in Germany on the way . |
| 17 | Dad also told Ted that meaning could take years to emerge , but in the meantime he should live in the present , enjoy the sky , trees , flowers and the taste of good food , and perhaps fix a few things in Eva 's house — maybe Dad 's bedside light and tape-recorder — if he needed any practical therapy . |
| 18 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 19 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 20 | And she has taught her new classmates a few words in Serbo-Croat . |
| 21 | There are still a few speeches in Greenaway 's house-style of inert paradox and cod worldliness — notably a digression by the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) about black food and the price structure of restaurant meals — but the story , for better or worse , stands relatively clear of verbiage . |
| 22 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 23 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 24 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 25 | A licensed trainer since 1986 , Beaumont celebrated the biggest success of his career with a meal and a few drinks in Cheltenham on Thursday night . |
| 26 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 27 | In the early stages of her marriage she kept her maiden name but when this caused a few rumblings in Arkansas and Clinton lost his bid for re-election as governor in 1980 , she took his name and he was returned to office two years later . |
| 28 | Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany . |
| 29 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 30 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |