Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |
| 2 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 3 | The first weekend I spend a few hours in a boat making a note of the various depths , the location of weedbeds , and any shelves or basins which could prove attractive to fish . |
| 4 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 5 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 6 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 7 | No hyenas , no kudu , no oryx ; only a few eagles in a place called Scotland and , unbelievably , hardly any kites . |
| 8 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 9 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 10 | After an hour inside the school , all four spent a few minutes in a room of their own before Charles and Diana said goodbye to their sons . |
| 11 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 12 | You spend a few minutes in a classroom and you find there 's budding farmers , policemen , bank clerks , bus drivers , mothers , harlots , fortunate and starved . |
| 13 | Each jump crosses a few light-hours in a bio-second or two . |
| 14 | Knit a few stitches in a contrast colour into a long strip . |
| 15 | Small areas , finishing touches and a few stitches in a different type of yarn are easy to add once the knitting is completed . |
| 16 | The authority 's sewage works vary in size from those producing many millions of gallons of treated effluent a day to those serving a few houses in a rural area where the discharge may be the merest trickle . |
| 17 | You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo . |
| 18 | Use an angled mouth pipette to localize a few embryos in a small drop of infiltration mix in the centre of the flat base of a BEEM capsule , fill up the capsule with Spurr and polymerize at 60C for 16 h . |
| 19 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 20 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 21 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 22 | At one time , I had a few carvings in a corner , away from the meat , but no one noticed them . |
| 23 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 24 | Once they have pasted a few posters in a Punjabi town , the instruction on them becomes law . |
| 25 | He 's the butler There are usually a few words in a language that can only be used gesturally : for example there are presentatives like French voici , and toasts like British English cheers . |
| 26 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 27 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 28 | ‘ Cheer up , ’ he went on , ‘ I 'll bring you a few cigarettes in a minute when Arthur 's opened the gate . ’ |
| 29 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 30 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |