Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 2 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 3 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 4 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 5 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
| 6 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 7 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 8 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
| 9 | Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’ |
| 10 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 11 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 12 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 13 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 14 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 15 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 16 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 17 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 18 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 19 | Dexter wondered at first whether it was because he was black or a probationer , but after a few months he was sure it was because of his Jamaican origins . |
| 20 | Well so that yo about Adrian after a few weeks it 's you know |
| 21 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 22 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 23 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 24 | British Telecommunications Plc said yesterday it plans to start selling satellite dishes and receivers by Christmas , making the move since it is one of the few activities it is allowed to pursue in the entertainment arena : ‘ We see it as a very important part of our wish to be part of the converging area of telephony , entertainment and computers , ’ the company told Reuter ; the company will reportedly source the equipment from two unidentified UK companies , in a move that is a significant threat to Amstrad Plc , whose shares fell tuppence to 31p . |
| 25 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 26 | According to Fidelity — one of the few companies which is to date offering these funds — the yield on its Tax Free Income Plan ( a unit trust comprising 51 per cent equities and 49 per cent bonds ) will fall from about 6 per cent now to 5.75 per cent after 5 April . |
| 27 | One of the few journalists who was always sceptical of the Al Fayeds ' case has just joined the staff of The Economist . |
| 28 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 29 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 30 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |