Example sentences of "for [adv] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 2 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 3 | The Doctor had watched the fight , without interest , for only a few minutes before setting off once again into the surrounding forest of knotted shapes . |
| 4 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 5 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 6 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 7 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 8 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 9 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 10 | Jane 's mum Mary , 50 , was beaten to death for just a few pounds in 1981 . |
| 11 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 12 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 13 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 14 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 15 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 16 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 17 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |