Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 32 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 33 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 34 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 35 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 36 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 37 | But after a few days , with no sign of the weather clearing , he began to feel like a prisoner . |
| 38 | Had the French attempted to move inland he would , it seems likely , have fought a defensive battle on ground of his own choosing , but after a few days , with not a shot fired on either side , the French re-embarked and de Tourville sailed home with his fleet intact . |
| 39 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 40 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 41 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 42 | The marshal 's favoured plan — Susan gathered — was that she should B into Daine 's Dream , as herself but with a few improvements and then rip the sub-universe apart until she found the fugitive and could tase him awake . |
| 43 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 44 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 45 | Nigel Birch , from Hereford Rowing Club , new to the game , but with a few tricks up his sleeve . |
| 46 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 47 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 48 | Usually the date of publication may be taken as given , but in a few cases — particularly where publication in book form follows several years after original research — imprint date should be compared against any dates given in the foreword or introduction . |
| 49 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |
| 50 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 51 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 52 | The outer-arc ridge is usually a submarine feature but in a few cases , such as Barbados in the West Indies and Middleton Island in the Aleutian Arc in Alaska , parts of it are exposed above sea level . |
| 53 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 54 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 55 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 56 | On average they rise some 2 km above the surrounding ocean floor but in a few localities , notably at Iceland , they reach above sea level . |
| 57 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 58 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 59 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
| 60 | But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection . |