Example sentences of "for [art] few [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 2 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |
| 3 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 4 | For a few minutes the sun glimmered through the mist to my right , a red ball just risen above the mountain . |
| 5 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
| 6 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For a few seconds the sepoy tried discreetly to shoo her away , hoping to be able to continue unobserved his stealthy creeping through the jungle . |
| 9 | The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face . |
| 10 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 11 | For most words in any given language , the variation in form will adhere to some regular pattern ; for a few words the variation will be irregular or only partly regular . |