Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology . |
| 2 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 3 | But pause for a few moments with the two names it introduces us to — Robert Taylor , the author , and the book 's recipient , Percivall Pott , whose characteristic signature it contains . |
| 4 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 5 | Her eyes were held for a few moments in the lazy gaze across the desk , then with a conscious effort she blinked herself free , looked down at her notepad . |
| 6 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 7 | He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force . |
| 8 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 9 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 10 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 11 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 12 | Entering the shielded room , the physician will place both hands a few inches above the disturbed area in the patient 's energy field , and begin to ‘ tune in ’ and resonate biomagnetic energy field patterns in unison with the patient . |
| 13 | As the pressure for the hot system is provided by the cold feed tank , which sits on the ceiling joists — now a few inches below the new floor level — you would have to raise it as high as possible . |
| 14 | The bundle she had disturbed eddied a few inches into the deeper water and as Wexford watched , a thin pale hand , lifeless as the agate-veined stones , rose slowly from the sodden cloth , its fingers hanging yet pointing towards him . |
| 15 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
| 16 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | As usual , you mention a few concerns over the Big Mac index ( April 17th ) , and I wonder if you should not have mentioned another one . |
| 18 | ACE Communications Ltd has come up with Spidernet ( a name that may cause a few concerns for the Edinburgh-based Spider Systems Ltd ) a hub that supports both Token Ring and direct-attached coaxial and twinaxial connections . |
| 19 | Most ‘ educationists ’ subscribed to the same principle , although a few teachers in the National Association of Labour Teachers and the TUC had begun to look beyond ‘ equality of opportunity ’ to equality of provision . |
| 20 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 21 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 22 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 23 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 25 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 26 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 27 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 28 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |
| 29 | The city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores a few hours before the Prime Minister , John Major , was to address a farmers conference 400 yards away . |
| 30 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |