Example sentences of "his [num ord] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is feared mementoes from his first few months in Italy , together with treasured personal belongings may have been snatched . |
| 2 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 3 | Howard laughs more in his first few weeks on Harry 's group than he has ever laughed in his life before . |
| 4 | The media are by nature deferential to Prime Ministers , as the reception granted to John Major in his first few weeks in power showed . |
| 5 | It was a place that Jed had found by chance during his first few weeks in Adam 's Creek . |
| 6 | Since he was also responsible for teaching a weekly class of seven young women at Lady Margaret Hall ( a women 's college in North Oxford ) and for teaching philosophy to the undergraduates of Magdalen , his first few years at the College were strenuous . |
| 7 | How can a dealer spend his last few weeks in his present firm most productively ? |
| 8 | He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature : his last few weeks before his death from cancer , which he fought uncomplainingly and with great courage , were spent in devising an entertainment , ‘ The French Revolution through British Eyes ’ , for the RSL . |
| 9 | For his last few days in France , after Waterloo , the Emperor retired to La Malmaison , which had belonged to Josephine until her death in 1814 and now belonged to Hortense . |
| 10 | I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details . |
| 11 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 12 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |