Example sentences of "for a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive . |
2 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
3 | I re-read what I had written , wrestled with the fading vision for a few sweating minutes , then gave up , swore , crumpled the page up , pitched it into the empty fireplace , and said , aloud : What I really need is a good old-fashioned ivory tower . ’ |
4 | Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland . |
5 | Addison has encapsulated the result by observing accurately that ‘ for a few critical years after 1945 , the home front ran on without a war to sustain it , and Britain was reconstructed in the image of the war effort ’ . |
6 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
7 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
8 | A small squadron could make a series of relay runs , each programmed for a few specific targets . |
9 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
10 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
11 | ‘ You cope with organising a party for a few hundred people , and you 're scared ? ’ he said in disbelief . |
12 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
13 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
14 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
15 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
16 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
17 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
18 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
19 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
20 | ‘ Just do n't ever forget that I hate you , Luke , ’ she reminded him in a fine , tense little voice , staving off complete sensual surrender for a few desperate seconds . |
21 | ‘ The group 's name itself has often been the source of some speculation — especially for writers anxious to pad out biographies for a few extra paragraphs — but the name ‘ Smith ’ has always been significant in the Morrissey hagiography . |
22 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
23 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
24 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
25 | WESTERNS — For a few Silver Dollars more ; Gunfight at the OK coral ; Stageloach ; Heaven 's Skate ; The Outlaw Josey Whales ; She wore a yellow rasbora |
26 | He whirled away from them to stalk the floor for a few raging paces , and as abruptly rounded on them again . |
27 | Out of the short-wave receiver comes a scratchy-hum , and for a few bleary seconds I think it 's a radio station closed down for the night . |
28 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
29 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
30 | Millions and millions of peounds for a few evoc-ative shots of somebody 's home-and-carstle through vaseline and old Jeremy Irons doing his voice-over bit and looking suitably moronic ! |