Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 6 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 7 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 8 | After a few moments of uncomfortable silence , she said stubbornly , ‘ If you denigrate my life 's work , you shall not profit by it unless you apologize to me , Clare . ’ |
| 9 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
| 10 | After a few moments of confused reflection , he realized Tess had left the room . |
| 11 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 12 | After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 13 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 14 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 15 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 16 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 17 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
| 18 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 19 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 20 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 21 | After a few years of gutting chickens for 14 hours a day , they are often thrown out of work by younger and cheaper competitors . |
| 22 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 23 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 24 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 25 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 26 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 27 | After a few years of management experience gained in clay-making departments and a brief spell as a studio artist with Johnson Matthey , Roy felt the need for further managerial training . |
| 28 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 29 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 30 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |