Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 2 | A riot reigned for two and a half hours after the last game ended . |
| 3 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 4 | A single order may not be sufficient for this latter aim , and it is advisable to go back to the shelves some months after the new stock has reached them and decide whether a further order is necessary . |
| 5 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 6 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 7 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 8 | It was , however , to be some years before the broad outlines of his findings were accepted . |
| 9 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 11 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 12 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 13 | But the undertone was exceedingly fragile , with many traders prepared to bank on the FT-SE falling below 2,200 points in the next few weeks unless the 15 per cent rates do turn out to be just a short-lived shock . |
| 14 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 15 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 16 | We have faced particularly traumatic times over the last few weeks as the economic situation has forced us to reduce our staff numbers in the UK . |
| 17 | Answer : A few cents for the new bulb plus — the odd tree killed by acid rain ; a small rise in global temperatures from carbon dioxide emissions ; a proportion of the ecological disasters caused by marine oil spillages ; and the occasional nuclear accident . |
| 18 | Even so , if there are two of you working together an ordinary garden spade or even a shovel can be used by one man to fill in some holes while the other man uses the graft or long spade on a new excavation . |
| 19 | Monica , Tweed 's close associate for many years , sat at her desk , her head bent over some files while the two men talked . |
| 20 | Time to move on , maybe , to search for some answers before the whole thing comes down around my ears . |
| 21 | Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way . |
| 22 | The touch of cynicism struck a slightly sour note , but it lasted only a few seconds before the teasing tone was back . |
| 23 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
| 24 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 25 | But French TV pioneered the national exit poll , and the ‘ results ’ were revealed a few seconds after the last ballot slip was boxed . |
| 26 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 27 | Indubitably , too much land was concentrated in too few hands though the agricultural reasons for extensive farming were not always appreciated . |
| 28 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 29 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 30 | The full extent of this system is yet to be established , but the gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin is only a few miles as the Pyrenean crow flies from the Gorges de Kakouetta and forms part of the one vast hydrological network . |