Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 2 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
| 3 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 4 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 5 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 6 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 7 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 8 | Nigel Birch , from Hereford Rowing Club , new to the game , but with a few tricks up his sleeve . |
| 9 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 10 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |