Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 2 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 3 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 4 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 6 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 7 | Walt Disney organises two to three raids a month on Thai pirates ; but according to Brandt Handley , head of Walt Disney 's consumer products division in South-East Asia , in most cases ‘ within a few weeks they are back at it again under another name and location . ’ |
| 8 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 9 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 10 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 11 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 12 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 13 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 14 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 15 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 16 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 17 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 18 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 19 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |