Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few attempts it will drive as normal . |
| 2 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 3 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
| 4 | Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’ |
| 5 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 6 | After a few minutes it will slowly and cautiously uncurl itself again . |
| 7 | Then after a few minutes it all stops . |
| 8 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 9 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 10 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 11 | After a few sessions it was becoming clear that Henry 's impact on the scheme was reciprocal . |
| 12 | After a few seconds it cut out completely . |
| 13 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 14 | Well so that yo about Adrian after a few weeks it 's you know |
| 15 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 16 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 17 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 18 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 19 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 20 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 21 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 22 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 23 | For a few seconds it was like a country church and Soapy remembered other , happier days . |
| 24 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 25 | Within a few minutes it has to return to wet its skin and take a fresh mouthful of water . |
| 26 | Within a few minutes it was adopted unanimously . |
| 27 | Within a few trials it learns to stay on the shelf ( this is called ‘ step-down avoidance ’ ) . |
| 28 | Within a few seasons it should be possible to interpret the motion vectors quantitatively and to represent them in more realistic terms than in the cartoon of Figure 2 . |
| 29 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 30 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |