Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 2 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 3 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 4 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 5 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 6 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 7 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 8 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 9 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 10 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 11 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 12 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 13 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 14 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 15 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 16 | For a few minutes they both remained thus , motionless . |
| 17 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 18 | For a few minutes they contemplated the grazing animals in silence . |
| 19 | Thus , for a few moments they reverted to passive projection , in role merely as spectators of teacher 's performance . |
| 20 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 21 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said briefly , and for a few moments they studied each other . |
| 23 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
| 24 | For a few seconds they encouraged the dogs to sniff and lick the blood — to reaffirm their hunting instinct — then , shouting and waving their arms , they sent them scurrying back to the shadows to wait for bones and other bits of debris . |
| 25 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 26 | The evening was enjoyed by all , with Sony requesting a return match , confident that with a few changes they can win the cup back . |
| 27 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 28 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 29 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 30 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |