Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes Woodruffe said : ‘ You 've got your foot on the brake , Dudley . ’ |
| 2 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 3 | After a few minutes Rose handed the paper back to him . |
| 4 | After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table . |
| 5 | After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron . |
| 6 | After a few days Anne decided to go back to school . |
| 7 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 8 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 9 | After a few seconds Sandison said : ‘ Tell me about the Scots . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Please , Dana , do as I ask ; it 's important , ’ Claudia pleaded , and something in her manner must have got across , for after a few seconds Dana allowed herself to be led towards the café . |
| 11 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 12 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 13 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 14 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 15 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 16 | For a few minutes Merrill heard the murmur of their voices , followed by the sound of Luke 's outer door closing . |
| 17 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 18 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 19 | For a few moments Rune regarded her in silence , a slight smile playing round his strong mouth , then he asked softly , ‘ What happened to our truce ? ’ |
| 20 | Eleanor looked as if he had actually hit her , and for a few moments Jessamy found herself feeling sorry for her . |
| 21 | For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said . |
| 22 | For a few moments Morse sat where he was . |
| 23 | For a few moments Leith felt transfixed — there seemed to be a hint of kindness in his look . |
| 24 | For a few years chimpanzees raised in human households learn as well as human infants of the same age , but they soon reach the limit of their ability and are rapidly overtaken by human youngsters . |
| 25 | When Ashley Mountney work was slack , he could be released to help on the farm for a few days sheep shearing again . |
| 26 | For a few seconds Jessamy sat there quietly fuming . |
| 27 | For a few seconds Luce sat staring at the closed door , trying to make sense of this latest development , before looking down at the tray . |
| 28 | For a few weeks Oxford seemed like a normal city instead of a theme park . |
| 29 | For a few months Joanne stayed at home , but became desperate to get a job and regain her independence . |
| 30 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |