Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 2 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 3 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 4 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 5 | Answer : A few cents for the new bulb plus — the odd tree killed by acid rain ; a small rise in global temperatures from carbon dioxide emissions ; a proportion of the ecological disasters caused by marine oil spillages ; and the occasional nuclear accident . |
| 6 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 7 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 9 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |
| 10 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 11 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 12 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
| 13 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 14 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 15 | But French TV pioneered the national exit poll , and the ‘ results ’ were revealed a few seconds after the last ballot slip was boxed . |
| 16 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |