Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was after eight-thirty and in a few minutes the family would sit down to eat while she stood at the end of the table , still working . |
| 32 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 33 | Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal , and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle 's cabin door . |
| 34 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 35 | Merseyside quiet with small codling , whiting and a few dabs the mainstay . |
| 36 | For most words in any given language , the variation in form will adhere to some regular pattern ; for a few words the variation will be irregular or only partly regular . |
| 37 | After a few yards the sea appears once more on your left , and in the distance , a railway viaduct crossing the bay . |
| 38 | After a few yards the greenery opened out again beside a small lake . |
| 39 | Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem . |
| 40 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 41 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 42 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 43 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 44 | In just a few days the centre will be a hive of activity . |
| 45 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 46 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 47 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
| 48 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 49 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
| 50 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
| 51 | Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two . |
| 52 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 53 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 54 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 55 | In the space of a few years the word ‘ hooligan ’ had outstripped its humble local origins and its specific reference to London gang life ( it had also begun to lose its capital ‘ H ’ ) and had come to be understood and feared as a much more general affliction among the nation 's youth . |
| 56 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 57 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 58 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |
| 59 | In a few years the number of BSE infected cattle is expected to drastically fall . |
| 60 | Bad today , the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline . |