Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
| 2 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
| 3 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 7 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 8 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 9 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 10 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 11 | The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 14 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 17 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 18 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 19 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 20 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |
| 21 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 22 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 23 | In a few cases the obligations of the local authorities will be quite clear . |
| 24 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 25 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 26 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |
| 27 | In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term . |
| 28 | Amid protest marches and demonstrations , over a period of weeks some two dozen lorries carrying live animal imports were held up on French roads and in a few cases the animals were slaughtered or burned alive . |
| 29 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |
| 30 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |