Example sentences of "a few [noun] the [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 5 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 6 | The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger . |
| 7 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a few cases the obligations of the local authorities will be quite clear . |
| 10 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 11 | In a few cases the wetlands proved too much for them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once again Campana saw the Germans line up ; ‘ In a few minutes the slopes of Hill 265 were covered with enemy advancing on us . |
| 14 | However in a few women the periods may become a little heavier . |
| 15 | In a few days the effects of the anaesthetic will diminish and you will feel better . |
| 16 | In a few days The Shamen take their millennial grooves and positive paganism to Salt Lake City . |
| 17 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 18 | Myxomatosis first shows as a swelling of eyes , ears and vent , and in the course of a few days the eyes fill with pus and the rabbit loses its sight . |
| 19 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 20 | Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience . |
| 21 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 22 | With a few exceptions the genera have the following characters in common : |
| 23 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 24 | And sure enough , within a few weeks the inches disappeared . |
| 25 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 26 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 27 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 28 | After a few months the Girls would be sent to perform in casinos , mainly dotted round the south of France and Monte Carlo . |