Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 2 | And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses . |
| 3 | Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry . |
| 4 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 5 | For a few moments no one spoke and then there was some activity in one corner where a young man was trying to persuade the girl beside him to stand up . |
| 6 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
| 7 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 8 | In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank . |
| 9 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
| 10 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 11 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 14 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 15 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
| 16 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He takes a few players every year on his estancia . |
| 20 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 21 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 22 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 23 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 24 | In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these . |
| 25 | The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger . |
| 26 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 27 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 28 | In Crohn 's disease the frequency of IgG anti-α antigen and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies did not differ statistically from the control group , although in a few instances the antibody levels were surprisingly high . |
| 29 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 30 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |