Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 2 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 3 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 4 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 5 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 6 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 7 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 10 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 11 | After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building . |
| 12 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 13 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 14 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 15 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 16 | After a few minutes the water will change colour . |
| 17 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 18 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 19 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 20 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 21 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 22 | Eventually James Wyllie married Mrs. Kay 's sister and after a few years the Wyllie family took over the firm , retaining the name , Andrew Kay & Company . |
| 23 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 24 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 25 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 26 | After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells . |
| 27 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 28 | After a few days the eldest brother told me to come . |
| 29 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 30 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |