Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] and [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 2 | The few hill-walkers and climbers that fancy a weekend away in February certainly do n't bring enough custom to keep the hotel owners in beaten copper coffee tables and onyx standard lamps . |
| 3 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 4 | I mean , just a few odds and ends that you could do from your nice |
| 5 | I 've still got a few odds and ends that are late |
| 6 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 7 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
| 8 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 9 | just for a few bits and pieces and any extras and |
| 10 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 11 | He hit a few three-irons and three-woods and that was it . |
| 12 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 13 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 14 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 15 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 16 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 17 | There are a few shells and worms that have left behind a tracery of trails in what was the muddy sea floor . |
| 18 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned . |
| 19 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |
| 20 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 21 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 22 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |
| 23 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 24 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |