Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 2 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 3 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 4 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 5 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 6 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 7 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 8 | There must , he thought , be thousands of these small attendants , waiters , scullions , masons , miners , mechanics and general helpers and dogsbodies in the place and around it ; he knew something about provisioning and logistics , and the castle 's kitchens could have provided ten-course meals every few hours for an army of tens of thousands . |
| 9 | Trent pinched Golden Girl a few degrees into the wind as the motor yacht rose to a swell which ran down her side in a flowing cascade of phosphorescence . |
| 10 | The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia . |
| 11 | It is not a bad idea to change one agency every few years . |
| 12 | Management at Darlington 's Memorial Hospital introduced new procedures a few weeks ago when no food could be found in the hospital for a diabetic patient who had just been admitted . |
| 13 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 14 | Robert had scarlet fever a few years later . |
| 15 | Entering the shielded room , the physician will place both hands a few inches above the disturbed area in the patient 's energy field , and begin to ‘ tune in ’ and resonate biomagnetic energy field patterns in unison with the patient . |
| 16 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |