Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Giving out eve-of-poll leaflets at the tube station , I get the same subliminal message as from the past few nights ' TV : increasingly confident Tories , and puzzled , frustrated socialists . |
2 | In the Howk , an eerie limestone gorge reached by a pleasant few minutes ' walk from the southern corner of the village green , is the threadbare ruin of a bobbin mill . |
3 | It had been a grand few minutes ' work . |
4 | After a frantic few minutes ' chase the skua realises this is n't going to be cost-effective and breaks off to look for something easier . |
5 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |
6 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |