Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach .
2 I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’
3 Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning .
4 After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends .
5 After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . "
6 After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues .
7 Manville asked , after a few moments of silence .
8 After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony .
9 After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion .
10 After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory .
11 After a few years of management experience gained in clay-making departments and a brief spell as a studio artist with Johnson Matthey , Roy felt the need for further managerial training .
12 Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages .
13 After a few days of sun-oil and cold showers , she even had the nerve to seek the shade and grumble a little at the sweat and the glare of it all .
14 After a few days of trial and error I devised a system of categorising my work four times during the day ; on an early shift , for example , at approximately 10.00am , 1.00pm , 3.00pm and on leaving for the day .
15 I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things .
16 But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ .
17 After a few days of tests and observation , the surgeon approached her bed .
18 After a few days of wing stretching and flapping outside the burrow , it makes the perilous trip to the edge of the cliff .
19 After a few days of production I had the opportunity to approach Dustin , ’ Silvis remembered .
20 The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke .
21 The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position .
22 After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds .
23 Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work .
24 After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear .
25 After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence .
26 Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease .
27 After a few bars of dialogue between Orfeo and the shepherds , Dafne returns with her tragic news which she recites in strikingly contrasted tones : which is followed by recitative conversation between Euridice , Orfeo , Dafne , and the shepherds .
28 One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate .
29 ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’
30 In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression .
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