Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need you to cover me fer a couple of hours at th'most . |
| 2 | After a couple of moments of deep breathing , the giddiness receded . |
| 3 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 4 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 5 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 6 | After a couple of decades of comparative calm , the names of Armstrong and Elliot began to reappear in familiar practices . |
| 7 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 8 | I could see Dad was worried so after a couple of hours of hanging about I offered to return to Mary 's . |
| 9 | With the main outage completed and the holiday season pressure easing , TOP Team activity is gathering momentum at Torness after a couple of months in the doldrums , writes Executive Support Manager Mervyn Jenkins . |
| 10 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 11 | After a couple of weeks with her sisters , I heard the false note not just in her accent , but in her voice as well . |
| 12 | But after a couple of weeks around Cardiff and Southampton docks — where there was a similar dry-dock to the battleship dock at St Nazaire — they could each carry out almost every demolition in under 10 minutes . |
| 13 | The decision was made after a panel of judges in the islands concluded that cancer and other illnesses had been caused by the US tests . |
| 14 | After a rush of taker-overs in the 1950s and 1960s , from Yeovil to Walsall , Charrington merged with the northern-based United Breweries . |
| 15 | Five years on , after a variety of careers in Voice Of The Beehive , The Nutty Boys , satellite TV and A&R-ing , Madness reconvened to discuss promotional tactics with regards to a proposed Virgin Greatest Hits selection and , hey presto ! |
| 16 | Sure Style acted after a rash of complaints about salesmen terrorising potential customers , refusing to leave their homes until they had agreed to buy double glazing . |
| 17 | THE TIMEX dispute in Dundee remained deadlocked last night after a day of talks between union officials and management . |
| 18 | The UN 's special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , flew to Kabul last night after a day of talks with Mujahideen leaders , the Pakistani Prime Minister , Mr Nawaz Sharif , and Iran 's ambassador in Islamabad . |
| 19 | The new agreement , which came into being after a year of negotiations between the Association 's solicitors and those at the EC Commission , has been drastically amended to meet the requirements of the Treaty . |
| 20 | The sale of the state-owned airline Aerolíneas Argentinas , was finally agreed after a year of negotiations in Buenos Aires on July 4 , at a price well below what the government had predicted [ see pp. 37608 ; 37773 for background ] . |
| 21 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 22 | On July 1 President Lech Walesa signed the law governing procedures for Poland 's first democratic elections , after a month of disputes with the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) . |
| 23 | Observers noted , however , that after the seventh party plenum , the government had stepped up its efforts to rein in the country 's increasingly outspoken journalists , especially after a conference of writers in October defied the party 's attempt to dictate proceedings and demanded more democracy in the country [ see p. 37123 for approval of a new restrictive press law at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly in late December 1989 ] . |
| 24 | DARLINGTON police have warned shopkeepers and their staff to safeguard against sneak thieves after a spate of incidents at the weekend . |
| 25 | It 's the first patrol of its kind outside an inner city area and was created after a spate of thefts at the hospital.Ian MacLaren reports . |
| 26 | POLICE and universities yesterday warned students about the ever-present danger of crime after a spate of muggings on Guy Fawkes night . |
| 27 | POLICE have urged householders to install alarms after a spate of burglaries in the Darlington area . |
| 28 | The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 . |
| 29 | The latest letter-bomb attack on the Canadian High Commission in Trafalgar Square , London comes after a spate of raids in Canada in the past two years . |
| 30 | Detectives in Hartlepool are urging householders to secure their garden sheds after a spate of break-ins in the Seaton Carew and Rift House areas . |