Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] few [noun] it " in BNC.
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1 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
2 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
3 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
4 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
5 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
6 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
7 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
8 | He was forty-one years of age and still a bachelor , but within a few months it became known that he wished to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson , an American divorcee . |
9 | In the above case The Times mentioned that ‘ the rapist has been leading a fox-style existence living rough in wooded countryside ’ , but within a few months it was clear , in yet another case , that it is the nickname itself which becomes crucial rather than any particular style of existence . |