Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 2 | There was an enormous gap between the possibilities of radical architecture and the strategic thinking of a few academic planners on the one hand , and the practical capabilities of planning staffs at local government level , on the other . |
| 3 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 4 | The relatively recent increase could be the result , for example , of a collision between two asteroids which produced several smaller asteroids , or the disruption of a few large comets . |
| 5 | The fitting of a few extra valves solved the problem . |
| 6 | IBM 's talk of a few orderly spin-outs could prove naively optimistic and it could be forced to jettison whole businesses that , under more favourable conditions , it would wisely prefer to retain , imperfections and all . |
| 7 | Full-contact , as it is.generally known , was the brainchild of a few martial artists who were tired of the controlled sparring methods allowed in karate and taekwondo . |
| 8 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
| 9 | The service has been a life line to Jeff Lockyer , he now has debts of a few hundred pounds , which compared to a couple of years ago , is an enormous weight off his mind . |
| 10 | Minimal effort was made to assist peasants in improving their farming methods : the attempts in this direction of a few dynamic zemstvos only highlighted how little was being done in the Empire as a whole . |
| 11 | As we shook hands and started to walk along a narrow path in the direction of a few slit trenches , Tony remarked , ‘ Big change out here from the South Coast of England , or the wilds of Achnacarry ! |
| 12 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 13 | By the last years of the period there were indications that anti-militarist ideas were beginning to influence even the policies of a few important statesmen — Turgot , Vergennes , possibly the younger Pitt . |
| 14 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 15 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
| 16 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 17 | The top picture was composed of agrimony leaves and alchemilla flowers , with the addition of a few pink larkspur and red hawthorn flowers . |
| 18 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 19 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 20 | It has been an astonishing transformation in opinions and attitudes , within the course of a few short weeks . |
| 21 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 22 | These accounts imply that incidents of violence against women are few and far between ; that they are products of a few sick individuals . |
| 23 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 24 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 25 | Here housing problems were aggravated by racial discrimination and the operations of a few unscrupulous landlords . |
| 26 | On the other hand , except for eurodollars , most currency sectors were the preserve of a few domestic institutions owing to regulatory barriers and cartels . |
| 27 | Whilst public protest and scientific concern have concentrated on the dangers of the industry 's radioactive threat , and others have challenged the strategic arguments , the economics have remained the preserve of a few academic critics who have been prepared to tussle with the limited information available . |
| 28 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 29 | The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . |
| 30 | Is all this enthusiasm just the work of a few ardent Shavians , exhuming the corpse for further public titillation ? |