Example sentences of "and [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I just draw out from the bank a spending allowance for the week — to pay mum back , to cover essentials and for a few little extras . |
| 3 | She could cancel her newspapers and for a few pence from a local jumble sale acquire an old-fashioned cookery book , and a heavy stew pot . |
| 4 | Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing . |
| 5 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 6 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 7 | Station CBR broadcast part of the output of the CBC national network from 6am to midnight , and for a few hour-long or half-hour periods each day , the feed was reversed , and CBR fed programmes to the network . |
| 8 | Oats and potatoes are grown for themselves and for a few cattle . |
| 9 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
| 10 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
| 11 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 12 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 13 | Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble . |
| 14 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 15 | She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead . |
| 16 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 17 | Exhibitions and trade shows work can be great fun — there is a chance to meet many new faces , stay in good hotels , have jolly meals with new-found colleagues and for a few days live in a different and , almost always , pleasant if busy world . |
| 18 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 19 | They sat in their saddles , and for a few minutes there was a great peace , as if the world held its breath at the beauty of this Irish evening . |
| 20 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 21 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 22 | Capital letters : Use these only for proper names and for a few dignitaries such as Her Majesty the Queen , Prime Minister , Archbishop and Field Marshal . |
| 23 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 24 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 25 | When Nancy was out in the street again , she sat down on a door-step , and for a few minutes seemed unable to move . |
| 26 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 27 | In the morning Riven lay half awake , listening to the sound of the water close at hand , and for a few moments thought it was a quiet tide outside the bothy . |
| 28 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 29 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 30 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |