Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
2 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
3 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
4 | After a few moments of uncomfortable silence , she said stubbornly , ‘ If you denigrate my life 's work , you shall not profit by it unless you apologize to me , Clare . ’ |
5 | After a few moments of confused reflection , he realized Tess had left the room . |
6 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
7 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
8 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
9 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
10 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
11 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
12 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
13 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
14 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
15 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
16 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
17 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
18 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
19 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
20 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
21 | After a few seconds of awkward introductions , Zohra excused herself with a promise to be down for cocoa at the usual time , then led Harry upstairs . |
22 | After a few months of this kind of thing , it was a wonder we did n't automatically walk out of our homes every hour , on the hour , when we were on leave , to look at the weather . |
23 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
24 | After a few months in fresh water , they begin to eat again and grow . |
25 | After a few weeks of this , I can guarantee you 'll be feeling quite a different person , and unable to wait to get out for your Sainsbury 's session , or your Waitrose-lifting ! |
26 | After a few weeks of relative calm — the ‘ phoney war ’ — chauvinism was revived by the German invasion of Norway . |
27 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
28 | Robbins 's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right , and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values , freedom and the family . |
29 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
30 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |