Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | After a few minutes Woodruffe said : ‘ You 've got your foot on the brake , Dudley . ’ |
| 3 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 4 | After a few minutes Rose handed the paper back to him . |
| 5 | After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table . |
| 6 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 7 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 8 | After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron . |
| 9 | After a few days Anne decided to go back to school . |
| 10 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 11 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 12 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 13 | After a few seconds Sandison said : ‘ Tell me about the Scots . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Please , Dana , do as I ask ; it 's important , ’ Claudia pleaded , and something in her manner must have got across , for after a few seconds Dana allowed herself to be led towards the café . |
| 15 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 16 | They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard . |
| 17 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 18 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 19 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 20 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 21 | For a few minutes Merrill heard the murmur of their voices , followed by the sound of Luke 's outer door closing . |
| 22 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 23 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 24 | For a few moments Rune regarded her in silence , a slight smile playing round his strong mouth , then he asked softly , ‘ What happened to our truce ? ’ |
| 25 | Eleanor looked as if he had actually hit her , and for a few moments Jessamy found herself feeling sorry for her . |
| 26 | For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said . |
| 27 | For a few moments Morse sat where he was . |
| 28 | For a few moments Leith felt transfixed — there seemed to be a hint of kindness in his look . |
| 29 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 30 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |