Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway .
2 After a few weeks on an unsweetened diet , it is remarkable how disgusting anything sugary tastes .
3 Probyn is one of the few players on the international scene to have played the game at every level : from Old Albanians , Streatham and Croydon through Richmond and Wasps to the first of his 33 caps in 1988 .
4 Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman .
5 OPPOSITE ABOVE : Suttons Mill at Cranham , one of the few mills on the Painswick stream having no connection with the cloth trade .
6 And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’
7 The glory of victory , the bitterness of defeat , the sunny nature of everyone as they cross the bridge into the magic world for a few hours on a frosty January day .
8 Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin .
9 The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . '
10 She leaned for a few minutes on the stone parapet overlooking the river , shading her eyes against the glitter of sunlight on the water and feeling its warmth soaking into her bones , before crossing the road and plunging into the narrow streets of the old town .
11 Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted .
12 ‘ So happy to gleet my good fliends here tonight ’ , he began , and spoke for a few moments on the glories of old Cathay .
13 It was great to be working in one place for a few nights on the trot so that I could afford to go to that amount of trouble . ’
14 Here she continues : ‘ A Mr. Lewis , an historic painter from London , come for a few weeks on a jaunt of pleasure , played on the piano for us .
15 It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists .
16 Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform .
17 Beginning with a few notes on the back of an envelope , the Bill expanded rapidly .
18 Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside .
19 The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory .
20 Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel .
21 Quite frequently a user will be satisfied with a few items on a topic as long as they are relevant and meet other criteria such as language , date and level .
22 Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round .
23 That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds .
24 So they choose to plant grass and root crops in the few fields on the lower slopes .
25 We should have that in a few minutes on the , the quotes side , Mark 's gon na bring them in to me .
26 Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils .
27 Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ?
28 The general enthusiasm for the fortieth anniversary of the structure of DNA should not blind us to a few blemishes on the otherwise fair face of molecular biology .
29 ‘ The fire exploded , spilling out on to the hearth , licking at the few drops on the floor , and in seconds Dame Frances was a blazing torch and your secret was safe . ’
30 We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs .
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