Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid .
2 He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps .
3 Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics !
4 It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth .
5 I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’
6 The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it .
7 James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit .
8 The evening was enjoyed by all , with Sony requesting a return match , confident that with a few changes they can win the cup back .
9 A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness .
10 Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers .
11 Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue .
12 At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages .
13 The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus .
14 A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen .
15 The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location .
16 I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured .
17 The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung .
18 Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well .
19 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
20 But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all .
21 But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all .
22 She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too .
23 League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots .
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