Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 2 | They fell silent for a few moments as they drank their tea . |
| 3 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 4 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 5 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 6 | A few minutes after they drove away there was a knock at the front door . |
| 7 | A few minutes after they started again a movement out on the plain caught Nathaniel Sherman 's eye . |
| 8 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 9 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 10 | And the Oxford Cheetahs can ruffle a few feathers when they meet the Exeter Falcons tonight . |
| 11 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 12 | I thought Honved might cause them a few problems once they had equalised . |
| 13 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |
| 14 | Most continue ripening in store until ready for the table , but a few varieties must be brought into the warm for a few days before they are ready to eat . |
| 15 | They were usually listless for a few days before they collapsed , breathing with evident difficulty and , in a few cases , discharging a white frothy liquid from their nostrils . |
| 16 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 17 | A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened . |
| 18 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
| 19 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 20 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 21 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 22 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
| 23 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 24 | ‘ After a few weeks though they went back to school and I started my course again . |
| 25 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 26 | For a few seconds as they descended , he had an unimpeded view through a gap in the trees of the west front of the chapel . |
| 27 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |