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

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1 After a few weeks other problems appeared and the plaintiff sued for the cost of repairing them .
2 After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock .
3 They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case .
4 It comes to the surface for a few seconds several times each day , and two short exposures to light separated by 12 hours are enough to initiate its reproductive cycle .
5 Most large towns in Britain with sizable Asian communities have three or four resident hakims , and an unknown number visit Britain from abroad to practise for a few weeks several times a year .
6 With a few exceptions particular examples of instruction programmes in individual libraries are rarely documented , and part of the reason for this is that special libraries themselves are not always entirely responsible for the education of their users .
7 They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times .
8 Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve .
9 Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods .
10 Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory .
11 Within a few days military delegations from Myanma and Thailand had met and Myanman troops were withdrawn by Dec. 25 .
12 Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority .
13 Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ .
14 In a few specimens this papillae may be partially divided giving the appearance of being two papillae .
15 In a few cases private individuals have been receiving journals by post , if they weigh less than 300 grams .
16 Secondly , it has been proposed in some quarters that there should be a more general return to the old grammar school system ( and indeed in a few areas these schools remain ) .
17 But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions .
18 On a few occasions other service-providers sought to refer clients directly to the project ; and very occasionally expressed the wish that the development officers could have acted more quickly with a client whose situation they felt needed immediate action .
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