Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
2 | ‘ You 'll have to excuse me husband , ’ she says , ‘ he get 's a bit borin' after a few pints . ’ |
3 | With all that , a player 's bag can feel like a ton after a few bogeys ! |
4 | We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts . |
5 | After a few attempts it will drive as normal . |
6 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
7 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
8 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
9 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
10 | After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ . |
11 | In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ? |
12 | But , with the Christmas party season in full swing , revellers are warned to stop after a few glasses . |
13 | But after a few notes she stopped and turned round on her stool to face me . |
14 | Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning . |
15 | ‘ Mm , that 's better ! ’ she said after a few mouthfuls . |
16 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
17 | Take particular note of every spot you see a bream roll , and after a few visits you will be able to form an accurate picture of where , how long , and what pattern the route forms . |
18 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
19 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
20 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
21 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
22 | After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ . |
23 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
24 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
25 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
26 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
27 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
28 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
29 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
30 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |