Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 After a few minutes Woodruffe said : ‘ You 've got your foot on the brake , Dudley . ’
2 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 .
3 After a few minutes Rose handed the paper back to him .
4 After a few minutes Jack groped for the bedside table .
5 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 .
6 After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron .
7 After a few days Anne decided to go back to school .
8 But after a few days Mcduff lost interest .
9 But after a few days Clare began to worry .
10 After a few seconds Sandison said : ‘ Tell me about the Scots . ’
11 ‘ 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 .
12 They turned left down a road and after a few paces Tom opened another gate into the field next to the graveyard .
13 ‘ She was one of the few women Charles regarded as an equal , ’ one who witnessed their early meetings recalled .
14 One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback .
15 The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance .
16 Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre .
17 It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made .
18 For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved .
19 With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city .
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 For a few days Osman could not bring himself to show his face in public and there was a noticeable lull in hostilities .
30 The travellers say they 'll move on , but not for a few days.Ken Goodwin reports .
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