Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 2 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 3 | In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank . |
| 4 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
| 5 | In a few areas the proposed treatment will considerably undermine the main purpose of the forthcoming Financial Reporting Standard , namely to reflect the substance of transactions in assets or liabilities . |
| 6 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 7 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 8 | He dialled and after a few rings a female voice answered . |
| 9 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 10 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |
| 11 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 12 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 13 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 14 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 15 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 16 | I killed a few rabbits the other day and I keep getting weird phone calls from Eric , but that 's about all . |
| 17 | Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way . |
| 18 | Within a few days a new Meghalaya United Parliamentary Party government was sworn in , headed by B. B. Lyngdoh . |
| 19 | Within a few days the troubled Asylum Bill itself disappeared from the Lord 's timetable for the remainder of the current Parliament . |
| 20 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 21 | Within a few days the Slovene peasants of the Krka valley between Novo Mesto and the Croatian border had also risen . |
| 22 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 23 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 24 | Within a few years a temporary revival was on the way , however , and William Titford , grandson of William the Emigrant , was achieving a fair degree of success as a partner in the silk-manufacturing business of Cotes , Titford and Brookes , then operating in Union Street , Bishopsgate . |
| 25 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 26 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 27 | Within a few years the increased prosperity of the yard had so impressed John Shuttleworth that he turned the business over to him . |
| 28 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 29 | This grant is subject to considerable change at present owing to alterations in the HEFCE funding arrangements for universities , but it is hoped that within a few years the total income will rise to new levels . |
| 30 | Within a few years the improved navigability of the river Don enabled them to compete even more successfully in distant markets . |