Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no supplement for the few single rooms available in some resorts , but they are soon filled . |
| 2 | Their hoods are manufactured from non-toxic plastic and the do-it-yourself model is one of the few simple hoods available which will accept two fluorescent tube fittings . |
| 3 | One of the few small numbers this month ! |
| 4 | TOUR operator Airbreak Leisure Group , one of the few new issues last year , yesterday unveiled more-than-doubled full-year profits up from £711,000 to £1.6m pre-tax . |
| 5 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 6 | Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times . |
| 7 | For a few silent moments this does n't click into place . |
| 8 | With a few simple commands great sweeping designs appear and disappear , colours change and a new pattern emerges . |
| 9 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 10 | Income tax in peacetime was not introduced in the UK until the 1840s , and VAT — a general tax on goods and services ( with a few specified exemptions such as good and children 's clothing ) — was not introduced until the 1970s . |
| 11 | We are doing well with dog-fighting in spite of its illegality , and we are making progress with a few speculative lines such as cave diving , simulated extreme skiing and Russian roulette . |
| 12 | The cell failed to send anyone to take part in the few educational courses available , such as those arranged by the agricultural station . |
| 13 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 14 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 15 | I want to take part in a few more races next year and you 'll never hear of a plump jockey winning races . ’ |
| 16 | In a few more moments this love scene would have reached the point of no return . |
| 17 | After a pause we continued , but in a few more minutes another note came through saying that further resignations were expected . |
| 18 | And due to a few unforseen obstacles some did n't even manage that . |
| 19 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 20 | The SAPC consists largely of representatives from Regional and District Councils , plus a few other organisations such as police , motoring associations etc . |
| 21 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |