Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 2 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
| 3 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 4 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 5 | After a few seconds all movement ceased and silence returned to the glade . |
| 6 | After a few weeks other problems appeared and the plaintiff sued for the cost of repairing them . |
| 7 | After a few weeks all our money was gone and everything was in pawn so Dad had to go to the relief office . |
| 8 | After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock . |
| 9 | The metaphor used in ‘ the heavy page/of death , printed by gravestones in the cemetery ’ , works with the ‘ black statement ’ of a few lines previous suggesting that death is like a book which can survive through generations and is read , that is experienced , by all . |
| 10 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 11 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 12 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 13 | Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing . |
| 14 | In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention . |
| 15 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
| 16 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 17 | For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime . |
| 18 | Betty and George found their support in the local day centre , Jill from a relative 's support group and Gladys through a care attendant scheme that relieved her responsibilities for a few hours each day . |
| 19 | Could you come for a few hours each day , do you think ? ’ |
| 20 | I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ . |
| 21 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 22 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 23 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 24 | Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night . |
| 25 | Spend some time reading or , even better , join a class and then practise , practise , practise — just for a few minutes each day . |
| 26 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
| 27 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 28 | The Society had asked members not to let their own daughters enter the trade , but now , for a few shillings extra , they were training the girl learners . |
| 29 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 30 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |