Example sentences of "but [prep] a few [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |