Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 2 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 3 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 4 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 5 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 6 | In a few cases data were not available for some of the more minor roads entering a junction . |
| 7 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 8 | And then in a few minutes Dennis is going to join with me in explaining to you how we are going to make the quality planning procedure work for you . |
| 9 | A few yards west is the dry entrance to the caves , which novices like myself can safely probe until confronted by difficulties ; daylight is admitted from manholes in the surface clints . |
| 10 | Think the closing dates a few days time is n't it ? |
| 11 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 12 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 13 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 14 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 15 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 16 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 17 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 18 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 19 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 20 | A few rams heads are visible decorating the tops of some of the countless columns in the building , but they seem more pastoral than sinister . |