Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 2 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | In a few specimens this papillae may be partially divided giving the appearance of being two papillae . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |