Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The tiny seaside resort of Widemouth Bay is a few minutes walk from our entrance . |
| 3 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |
| 4 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 5 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 6 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 7 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 8 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
| 9 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 10 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 11 | Only the tower of this church remains , a few yards west of which can be found Cook Senior 's last resting place , marked curiously by a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea . |
| 12 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |