Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary arranged for the well-known warbird pilot John Crocker to ferry the aircraft across the Atlantic for me , John being one of the few pilots at that time who could be insured to undertake such a flight . ’ |
| 2 | It does not seem , in general , valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost . |
| 3 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 4 | Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance . |
| 5 | Indeed he himself added a footnote to the paragraph quoted above : ‘ I was informed , however , that there were a few cockatoos at one spot on the west of Bali , showing that the intermingling of the productions of these islands is now going on … ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps we can offer a few pointers at this stage . |
| 7 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 8 | It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli . |
| 9 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 10 | It 's only a few people at this moment in this country , that does believe in railway privatization , and that is the Department of Transport . |
| 11 | I came to know and admire Beethoven 's ‘ Pastoral ’ symphony for the scenes depicted ; I enjoyed Saint Saens ' ’ Carnival of the Animals ’ , Prokofieff 's ‘ Peter and the Wolf ’ , and Benjamin Britten 's ‘ Guide to the Orchestra ’ as well as ‘ Ein Heldenleben ’ ( A Hero 's Life ) by Richard Strauss , the symphonies of Brahms , Haydn and Tschaikowsky , and especially , for a few years at any rate , the latter 's ‘ 1812 Overture ’ . |
| 12 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |