Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 2 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 3 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 4 | People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out . |
| 5 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 6 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 7 | After a few minutes more of dozing I sat up . |
| 8 | Most of all , after a few days there began to appear a growing chorus of complaint from hosts about the condition of some of the evacuees . |
| 9 | If there is no improvement after a few days then it is either not the appropriate remedy or there are some environmental maintaining causes blocking the remedy action §252 . |
| 10 | She was n't afraid of the dark ; but now , after a few nights here , she was beginning to admit to herself that she did n't really like such a depth of blackness . |
| 11 | After a few blows there , the porcupine succumbs and is then turned carefully over and eaten from underneath , its soft underbelly causing no problems . |
| 12 | For these reasons , and many more , no teenager returns home , even after a few months away , without having changed . |
| 13 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 14 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 15 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 16 | He always stayed at Le Richemond , one of the few hotels still in private hands in Geneva . |
| 17 | Typhoid is more difficult to eliminate because symptomless ‘ carriers ’ can transmit the disease to others , although most of the few cases today are imported ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 18 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 19 | Critics noticed that he was one of the few artists genuinely enthusiastic about new talent . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's one of the few places close to Washington where you can get lost and still not get hurt , ’ Ashelman said . |
| 21 | It was almost time for her mistress 's luncheon , and she went towards the back of the hall to the breakfast parlour , one of the few rooms still in use , to see if Mrs Diggory had as yet laid out the tray . |
| 22 | People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available . |
| 23 | In Carmina Gadelica ( 1900 ) , Alexander Carmichael notes that ‘ St John 's wort is one of the few plants still cherished by the people to ward away second-sight , enchantment , witchcraft , evil eye , and death , and to ensure peace and plenty in the house , increase and prosperity in the field , and growth and fruition in the field ’ . |
| 24 | Common centaury centaurium erythraea is one of the few plants still in flower . |
| 25 | ( One of the few politicians so far to have mentioned raising taxes in an election campaign and still have won is Bill Clinton . ) |
| 26 | Kalchu 's brother and several other men , seeing the smoke from outside , came to share the warmth of one of the few fires still burning . |
| 27 | The boys could see that in reception classes , as in the all-in village school of a few generations ago , only one teacher taught all subjects to children between twelve and sixteen . |
| 28 | She could n't explain now her bitter fury of a few moments ago or why she had used Marie to take revenge on Simon . |
| 29 | If that is the case , the Home Secretary 's statement of a few moments ago is wrong . |
| 30 | He was already striding towards the door , the gentleness of a few moments ago already forgotten , Lindsey realised , with a surprising stab of regret . |