Example sentences of "a few [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few lumps of stone ; a matching shepherd and shepherdess plucked from Arcady , an old and battered sundial and a leaded glass cloche . |
| 2 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 3 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 4 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 5 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 6 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 7 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 8 | I had a few moments of fury , a fury compounded of shame at my own stupidity , the triteness of the situation , the thought of my cottage and supper and the cosy fireside . |
| 9 | Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory . |
| 10 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 11 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 12 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 13 | After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 14 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 15 | After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 16 | I spent a few moments in thought . |
| 17 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 18 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 19 | A few moments before sundown I extricated Wavebreaker 's folding bicycle from the big locker on the boat 's after swim-platform , forced the rusting hinges open , then pedalled along Midshipman Road to the glittering block of apartments where our esteemed boss lived . |
| 20 | Hurdles of metal , split oak , or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips ( although they are laborious for the latter . |
| 21 | The Donora episode , together with smogs in London in 1952 ( causing 4000 deaths ) and New York City in 1953 ( resulting in 200 deaths ; Greenburg et al. , 1962 ) , stimulated plans for a national air pollution conference and the introduction of a few bills in Congress ( none of them passed ) . |
| 22 | Significantly , there are a few areas of overlap , which will allow very effective dovetailing between our operations . |
| 23 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 24 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 25 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 26 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 27 | He 's doing quite a few weekends on duty , to earn a bit of money . |
| 28 | I squirted a few jets of milk then something blocked the end . |
| 29 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 30 | WHATEVER our image of a truant may be — layabout , glue-sniffer , petty criminal — a recent report from the Scottish Office urges us to dispel a few misunderstandings about truancy . |