Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 2 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 3 | In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank . |
| 4 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
| 5 | In a few areas the proposed treatment will considerably undermine the main purpose of the forthcoming Financial Reporting Standard , namely to reflect the substance of transactions in assets or liabilities . |
| 6 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 7 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 8 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 9 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 10 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 11 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 12 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 13 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 14 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 15 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 16 | In a few minutes the same policeman forced his way through the mob to the gallery . |
| 17 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 18 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 19 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 20 | This waiting was the worst part , creeping forward a few feet every twenty minutes . |
| 21 | I killed a few rabbits the other day and I keep getting weird phone calls from Eric , but that 's about all . |
| 22 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 23 | Within a few days a new Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party government was sworn in , headed by B. B. Lyngdoh . |
| 24 | If the symptoms disappear in a few days no more medicine is needed , but if the symptoms persist dosing continues as before to complete the cure §281 . |
| 25 | After a few days the eldest brother told me to come . |
| 26 | Within a few days the troubled Asylum Bill itself disappeared from the Lord 's timetable for the remainder of the current Parliament . |
| 27 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 28 | Within a few days the Slovene peasants of the Krka valley between Novo Mesto and the Croatian border had also risen . |
| 29 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 30 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |