Example sentences of "for a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive . |
| 2 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 3 | I re-read what I had written , wrestled with the fading vision for a few sweating minutes , then gave up , swore , crumpled the page up , pitched it into the empty fireplace , and said , aloud : What I really need is a good old-fashioned ivory tower . ’ |
| 4 | Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland . |
| 5 | Addison has encapsulated the result by observing accurately that ‘ for a few critical years after 1945 , the home front ran on without a war to sustain it , and Britain was reconstructed in the image of the war effort ’ . |
| 6 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 7 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 8 | A small squadron could make a series of relay runs , each programmed for a few specific targets . |
| 9 | He followed the main road for a few hundred yards up St Peter 's Hill and then took a track between the main road and the Thames , directly towards Blagrave Farm . |
| 10 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 11 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 12 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 13 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 14 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 15 | The future fate of the Universe is not one of humanity 's more pressing problems : on this scale nothing drastic is likely to happen for a few hundred billion years yet . |
| 16 | The non-exclusive deal , for a few hundred thousand dollars , gives Convex design rights to Dolphin 's three year old chip-independent SCI technology . |
| 17 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 18 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 19 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 20 | ‘ You cope with organising a party for a few hundred people , and you 're scared ? ’ he said in disbelief . |
| 21 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 22 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
| 23 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 24 | ‘ Just do n't ever forget that I hate you , Luke , ’ she reminded him in a fine , tense little voice , staving off complete sensual surrender for a few desperate seconds . |
| 25 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 26 | ‘ The group 's name itself has often been the source of some speculation — especially for writers anxious to pad out biographies for a few extra paragraphs — but the name ‘ Smith ’ has always been significant in the Morrissey hagiography . |
| 27 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 29 | WESTERNS — For a few Silver Dollars more ; Gunfight at the OK coral ; Stageloach ; Heaven 's Skate ; The Outlaw Josey Whales ; She wore a yellow rasbora |
| 30 | He whirled away from them to stalk the floor for a few raging paces , and as abruptly rounded on them again . |