Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [pron] " 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 moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 3 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 4 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 5 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 6 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 7 | There were a few members of staff who could do with a visit from beyond the tomb . |
| 8 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 9 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Church praises the courage of a small number of press , radio and TV journalists who are risking their lives to maintain at least a few channels of information which are not controlled by the government . |
| 12 | A few examples of projects which have taken place are described below as an illustration of what can be achieved . |
| 13 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 14 | ‘ After a few days of production I had the opportunity to approach Dustin , ’ Silvis remembered . |
| 15 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 16 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |
| 17 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
| 18 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 19 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 20 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 21 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |