Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After a few moments a truce was arranged .
2 And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses .
3 After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’
4 For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded .
5 For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet .
6 As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life .
7 For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards .
8 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 .
9 After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway .
10 They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward .
11 For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave .
12 In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched .
13 He takes a few players every year on his estancia .
14 With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’
15 I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week .
16 He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides .
17 The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger .
18 In Crohn 's disease the frequency of IgG anti-α antigen and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies did not differ statistically from the control group , although in a few instances the antibody levels were surprisingly high .
19 In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed .
20 In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed .
21 In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these .
22 Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car .
23 Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do
24 Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims .
25 So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time .
26 There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month .
27 A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens .
28 Yes , I was possessed , but happy to be so , if it allowed me to be with him , to feel him near me for a few hours every day .
29 It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend .
30 Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms .
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