Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 2 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |
| 4 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 5 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 6 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 7 | At the inevitable inquest a few weeks later which , mercifully , thanks to Edna 's and Bert 's discretion , the appalling weather and her own reclusive way of life , was held almost in private , she sat in the court , her head bowed , her once handsome face lined and drawn . |
| 8 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 9 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
| 10 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 11 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 12 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 13 | Though the Welsh version continues to go out on the day it is filmed , the new audience will be regaled with story lines familiar to the Welsh audience a few weeks later . |
| 14 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 15 | Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun . |
| 16 | He glanced around and noticed a hole in the sandy bank a few yards away . |
| 17 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 18 | You could move the more aggressive fish to a separate tank — or even the breeding trap — and return it to the main aquarium a few days later , when it will be unlikely to go on the attack , as it will in effect , be the ‘ new fish ’ . |
| 19 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 20 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I was on the verge of the England squad with Norwich and played for the Under-21 side a few times . |
| 22 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 23 | There was a general feeling among the local community a few years ago that academic standards at the school had slipped , and many parents opted for other schools in the area for their children . |
| 24 | In northern Scandinavia there is only a narrow band a few kilometres wide along the northeastern coast of Kola Peninsula . |
| 25 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 26 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 27 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 28 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 29 | It 's of course always privilege to play over there and I was over there with a national team a few times , it 's a big occasion for the players , for the managers and for the big tournaments too . |
| 30 | He turned his head , and saw a human foot a few inches away . |