Example sentences of "but [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
| 2 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 3 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 4 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 5 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 6 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 7 | Below , a tightly-packed steel chamber , dark but for a few naked bulbs , was filled with squat metal ten-gallon drums . |
| 8 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 9 | But for a few hours today there was hope . |
| 10 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 11 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 12 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 13 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 14 | At first she pulled back , but after a few minutes she relaxed a little . |
| 15 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 16 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 17 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 20 | But after a few days , with no sign of the weather clearing , he began to feel like a prisoner . |
| 21 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 22 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 23 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 26 | But after a few notes she stopped and turned round on her stool to face me . |
| 27 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 28 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 29 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 30 | 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 . |