Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 2 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 3 | Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table . |
| 4 | ‘ After a few days of production I had the opportunity to approach Dustin , ’ Silvis remembered . |
| 5 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |
| 6 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 7 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |