Example sentences of "[pron] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give " em a few months , and you should see the share price double . |
| 2 | I went back to my doctor after two months and said well I feel a bit better , can I a few more months . |
| 3 | Someone a few doors away had their house gutted by fire last week . |
| 4 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
| 5 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 6 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 7 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 8 | At one end of this dim room was an open fireplace , in which a few huge logs still smouldered in a bed of white ash ; on either side of this were two heavy , curved and padded armchairs , covered in velvet , a dark charcoal colour , pattered with dark purple flowers , a kind of glamorised fin-de-siècle bindweed . |
| 9 | In 1912 , C. D. Paterson of Manly in Australia returned from Hawaii with a heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers tried in vain to ride . |
| 10 | Those who had not escaped remained as a nucleus permanent staff to which a few of the prisoners passing through were added . |
| 11 | Myths form a large part of poetry or music for they are the ancient background of man 's thoughts which the materialist world has spurned , but which a few poets and mystics have jealously guarded and preserved . |
| 12 | This probably represents a fair picture of the more casual breeding season or breeding records , of which a few occur in most years . |
| 13 | But the new house signified something else , the powerful hold over Sussex life which a few very great landowners exercised for the next two centuries or so . |
| 14 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 15 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 16 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 17 | Charisma is that aspect of personality which a few people possess which makes others follow them . |
| 18 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |
| 19 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 20 | His own hair was hidden under a latex cap from which a few grey wisps straggled crazily . |
| 21 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 22 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of the lads are lacking confidence and that means we just are n't trying things which a few weeks ago we were doing . |
| 24 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
| 25 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |
| 26 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 27 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
| 28 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 29 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |
| 30 | Typical of these is the crossbill , a bird of the pine forests , which every few years arrives in Shetland in flocks . |