Example sentences of "few [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 2 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 3 | In rural areas where there are few cinemas the video centres are especially popular . |
| 4 | Merseyside quiet with small codling , whiting and a few dabs the mainstay . |
| 5 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |
| 6 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |
| 7 | In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term . |
| 8 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 9 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 10 | After a few minutes the water will change colour . |
| 11 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 12 | In those few minutes the colour had drained out of them and they had wilted in the glass like faded tissue paper . |
| 13 | But just a few minutes the vicar arrived , and despite the Church 's apology insisted the crosses would have to go . |
| 14 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 15 | And after just a few minutes the cold was starting to get through . |
| 16 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
| 17 | Within a few minutes the basket was more than half full of food , and Mary was pouring the soup into the thermos . |
| 18 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 19 | For a few minutes the sun glimmered through the mist to my right , a red ball just risen above the mountain . |
| 20 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 21 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 24 | Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal , and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle 's cabin door . |
| 25 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 26 | Within the next few hours the water would rise , and his body would turn to ice as he was submerged , inch by inch , in the merciless waters of the Thames . |
| 27 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 28 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 29 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 30 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |