Example sentences of "[art] few moments [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Concede goals on the break and seem incapable of surviving the few moments in a match that we are under pressure . |
2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
3 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |
4 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
5 | They were shadow walkers , emerging every few moments with a suitcase , bulging , from one of the bedrooms , stacking it in the cramped hallway . |