Example sentences of "[prep] a few moment the " in BNC.

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1 After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway .
2 After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales .
3 They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward .
4 For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded .
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 moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave .
7 For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet .
8 In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury .
9 In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank .
10 As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life .
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