Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [noun prp] [be] " in BNC.

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1 And then in a few minutes Dennis is going to join with me in explaining to you how we are going to make the quality planning procedure work for you .
2 Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness .
3 But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face .
4 Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place .
5 For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration .
6 Over the next few months Ivy is at the heart of a gruelling Street storyline .
7 Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf .
8 During the next few days Stevie was to find himself something of a cult figure .
9 For the next few days Ajdabiya was extremely unsettled , and men showed all the conventional signs of being in crisis , and on the verge of further violent action .
10 Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works .
11 Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him .
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