Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 2 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 3 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 4 | During the few minutes they chatted , apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza 's name . |
| 5 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 6 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 7 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 8 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 9 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 10 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 11 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 12 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 13 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 14 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 15 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 16 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 17 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 18 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 19 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 20 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 21 | For a few minutes they both remained thus , motionless . |
| 22 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 23 | For a few minutes they contemplated the grazing animals in silence . |
| 24 | Thus , for a few moments they reverted to passive projection , in role merely as spectators of teacher 's performance . |
| 25 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 26 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said briefly , and for a few moments they studied each other . |
| 28 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
| 29 | For a few seconds they encouraged the dogs to sniff and lick the blood — to reaffirm their hunting instinct — then , shouting and waving their arms , they sent them scurrying back to the shadows to wait for bones and other bits of debris . |
| 30 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |