Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
| 2 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 5 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 6 | United then began to pile men forward as they had to , Simpson causing problems down the left , Phillips again in mid-field winning a lot of ball , but of course United leaving a few gaps at the back , and just before the finish , four minutes before the finish , that man Gascoigne put the game beyond United 's reach , giving Spurs a four two victory . |
| 7 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 8 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 11 | LAST WEEK I WANDERED off , rather against my better judgment , to kill a few hours at a thing called the Country Living Fair . |
| 12 | In contrast , among prolonged breeders , amplexus lasts a few hours at most . |
| 13 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 14 | It does not seem , in general , valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost . |
| 15 | His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home . |
| 16 | There was an added pleasure to this as they used the cable that connected the spy camera on the wall , so , for a few hours at least , we had some privacy . |
| 17 | Sit and wait tactics may be your best option here , for a few hours at least . |
| 18 | Solutions of the polymer are prepared in a concentration series and clarified either by centrifugation for a few hours at about 25 000 g , or filtered through a grade 5 sinter glass filter . |
| 19 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 20 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 21 | I spent a few hours at house in Delhi , before leaving on Sunday 28th November to catch the 03.45 flight to London . |
| 22 | The Thing blinked a few lights at him . |
| 23 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 24 | So I urge anyone with a garden to visit Sainsbury 's , keep back a few potatoes at the end of the season , before Christmas store them carefully and plant them in the spring . |
| 25 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 26 | Very often , Western copyright and patent holders are more interested in exporting a few products at high prices than in selling licences or granting permissions at prices that Third World countries can afford . |
| 27 | Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance . |
| 28 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 29 | I even practised a few variations at home to see if the system could be improved . |
| 30 | Hotels shelter discreetly among refreshing pine trees or beside sumptuous sandy shores , and everywhere there is an opportunity to relax , to enjoy a wide variety of watersports or to play a few rounds at the 18-hole Is Molas Golf Club . |