Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
2 | Specimen examination papers for the new syllabuses have been written , and packs will be sent to employers in a few weeks time . |
3 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
4 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
5 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
6 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
7 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
8 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
9 | In January 1936 Edward went to Windsor for a few weeks . |
10 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
11 | Pigs in an infected herd become immune to re-infection after a few weeks . |
12 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
13 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
14 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
15 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
16 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
17 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
18 | Regular filter changes are essential because efficiency can drop from 80% to 20% after a few weeks , if you forget to clean your unit . |
19 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
20 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
21 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
22 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
23 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
24 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
25 | After a month feel safe to build-up to a few more fish . |
26 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
27 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
28 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
29 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
30 | Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ? |