Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 33 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 34 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 35 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 36 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 37 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 38 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 39 | After a few years of gutting chickens for 14 hours a day , they are often thrown out of work by younger and cheaper competitors . |
| 40 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 41 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 42 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 43 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 44 | 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few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 47 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 48 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 49 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 50 | ‘ After a few days with me he starts to calm down and see things in perspective again , ’ she reveals . |
| 51 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 52 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 53 | After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean . |
| 54 | 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 ’ . |
| 55 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 56 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 57 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 58 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 59 | After a few days of tests and observation , the surgeon approached her bed . |
| 60 | ‘ After a few days of production I had the opportunity to approach Dustin , ’ Silvis remembered . |