Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 2 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 3 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 6 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 7 | After a few minutes the water will change colour . |
| 8 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 9 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 15 | After a few days the eldest brother told me to come . |
| 16 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 17 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
| 18 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 19 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 20 | Then after a few miles the engine stopped again . |
| 21 | In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards . |
| 22 | After a few yards the greenery opened out again beside a small lake . |
| 23 | After a few yards the sea appears once more on your left , and in the distance , a railway viaduct crossing the bay . |
| 24 | After a few seconds the attitude should be allowed to steepen up gradually and smoothly until the full climbing angle is reached . |
| 25 | ( After a few seconds the rudder must be recentralised to avoid getting to high speeds with full rudder applied . ) |
| 26 | He could hear the car , distantly , and after a few seconds the sound of its motor faded away . |
| 27 | After a few seconds the voice began again , stronger now and more resolute . |
| 28 | After a few seconds the red lights on my suit turned to green . |
| 29 | After a few seconds the novice , with tea spilling out of the cup and down his arms , cried , ‘ stop ! no more will go in ’ . |
| 30 | After a few seconds the Luggage got up and pattered across the floor after them . |