Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] moments the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales . |
2 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
3 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
4 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
5 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
6 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
7 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
8 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |