Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 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 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
19 | From the City came English Trust 's Susanna Todd , one of the few women directors of a merchant bank . |
20 | ‘ She was one of the few women Charles regarded as an equal , ’ one who witnessed their early meetings recalled . |
21 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
22 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
26 | For a few minutes Merrill heard the murmur of their voices , followed by the sound of Luke 's outer door closing . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 ? ’ |
30 | Eleanor looked as if he had actually hit her , and for a few moments Jessamy found herself feeling sorry for her . |