Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 2 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 3 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 4 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 5 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 6 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 7 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 8 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 9 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 10 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 11 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 12 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 13 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 14 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 15 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 16 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 17 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 18 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
| 19 | The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women . |
| 20 | It publishes a monthly newsletter and a monthly Investors ' Handbook which builds up into a comprehensive reference manual covering all aspects of share investment . |
| 21 | During the latter half of 1990 intercommunal and linguistic tensions were again raised by a long-running teachers ' strike which from September severely disrupted both state and private schools in French-speaking Wallonia , where teachers were demanding pay increases in line with those paid in ( more prosperous ) Flanders . |
| 22 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 23 | The critics ' favourite accusation that Neverland looks like a theme park is fair , though hardly a criticism — most children and adults enjoy Disneyland , and the movie is no more garish than The Wizard of Oz , a great children 's film which has been rendered critically respectable by age . |
| 24 | Nor would we have an information system which carries every piece of lesbian information any of us can find , lesbian benefits to balance up the years of drag show fund raising , and a closed Women 's Caucus which supports whatever work we do in the organization . |
| 25 | In addition to this , there is a married couples 's allowance which is usually paid to the man in the first instance . |
| 26 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |
| 27 | FIPRESCI is a world-wide critics ' organisation which includes most of the leading and distinguished writers on film among its members . |
| 28 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 29 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 30 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |