Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
| 2 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
| 3 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 4 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 5 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 6 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |
| 7 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |
| 8 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 9 | For a few minutes the sun glimmered through the mist to my right , a red ball just risen above the mountain . |
| 10 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 11 | But just a few minutes the vicar arrived , and despite the Church 's apology insisted the crosses would have to go . |
| 12 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 13 | After a few yards the sea appears once more on your left , and in the distance , a railway viaduct crossing the bay . |
| 14 | After a few yards the greenery opened out again beside a small lake . |
| 15 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 16 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 17 | In a few days The Shamen take their millennial grooves and positive paganism to Salt Lake City . |
| 18 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 19 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 20 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 21 | Myxomatosis first shows as a swelling of eyes , ears and vent , and in the course of a few days the eyes fill with pus and the rabbit loses its sight . |
| 22 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 23 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
| 24 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 25 | Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience . |
| 26 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 27 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 28 | Then after a few miles the engine stopped again . |
| 29 | In a few miles the traveller passes from the summer droughts and deserts of Africa to the climate of northern Europe . |
| 30 | In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards . |