Example sentences of "a few [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 2 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |
| 3 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |
| 4 | Anne watched her for a few moments in stunned silence , trying to decide if she meant what she had said . |
| 5 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 6 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 7 | I spent a few moments in thought . |
| 8 | Her eyes were held for a few moments in the lazy gaze across the desk , then with a conscious effort she blinked herself free , looked down at her notepad . |
| 9 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 10 | We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening . |
| 11 | ‘ If you ask me , he simply wants a few moments in sane and pleasant company , away from the madhouse . ’ |
| 12 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 13 | Could you possibly spare me a few moments in private ? |
| 14 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 15 | The Donora episode , together with smogs in London in 1952 ( causing 4000 deaths ) and New York City in 1953 ( resulting in 200 deaths ; Greenburg et al. , 1962 ) , stimulated plans for a national air pollution conference and the introduction of a few bills in Congress ( none of them passed ) . |
| 16 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 17 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 18 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 19 | A few areas in the world are phylloxera-free and the vines there are sometimes ungrafted . |
| 20 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 21 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 22 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 23 | Do you consider that the inspector is right to assess emoluments on the director , and if so is it correct to charge emoluments for the whole year when the director only uses the property for a few weekends in each year ? |
| 24 | This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east . |
| 25 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 26 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 27 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 28 | ‘ I have a few concerts in the Midlands , and I thought I 'd make my base somewhere close by until they 're over . |
| 29 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |