Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ . |
| 2 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 3 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 4 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 5 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 6 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 7 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 8 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 9 | After a few days of the Novotel , I was able to move to the Trianon , a magnificent Edwardian building , well placed right on the edge of the park . |
| 10 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 11 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 12 | After a few days in the cave , he entered the farmhouse , saying that his end was close . |
| 13 | We all know that we feel better after a few days in the mountains but why is this ? |
| 14 | After a few days in the nest , however , the chicks will peck more at the herring gull model ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 15 | After a few laps of the track we could kick a ball about or even have a go at throwing a javelin . |
| 16 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 17 | After a few months as a general news reporter I was given a wider range of assignments and when Jim Miller left , my regular beats included the monthly School Board meetings and the daily Police Court and High Court sessions . |
| 18 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 19 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 20 | After a few weeks on an unsweetened diet , it is remarkable how disgusting anything sugary tastes . |
| 21 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 22 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 23 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 24 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 25 | I knew the paths well and it was a journey of a few kilometres as the crow flies or , as they say in Italy , a volo d'uccello . |
| 26 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 27 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 28 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 29 | Pathos is created only by the sacrifice of a few members of the virtuous side , mostly old ones like Théoden or Dáin , or peripheral ones like Háma and Halbarad and the list of mere names in the Rohan dirge after the Pelennor Fields . |
| 30 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |