Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [coord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 2 | The few references and scraps of information we have about the very early recruits suggests that these may have included more girls of middle-class origin and certainly some from orphanages and boarding-schools — girls sometimes from middle-class families fallen on hard times . |
| 3 | Dierdriu , thought her granddaughter , had probably gone noisily and wantonly along brightly lit corridors , brandishing torches , attended by half the Court , very likely conducting a few odds and ends of State business along the way . |
| 4 | And we 've quite a few bits and bobs of furnishing that your mother might find useful . |
| 5 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 6 | She slid open a fitted wardrobe to their left to reveal a few suits and pairs of trousers hanging from a rail . |
| 7 | In the early days of " Darwinism " , when the race was on to find tangible evidence of the " missing link " between apes and men , it was again from Indonesia that , from a few molars and shreds of skull , Java Man and Gigantopithecus would briefly rise to claim the title . |
| 8 | Simultaneously mythic and painstakingly real ( ‘ the giant Exxon sign/That brings this fair city light ’ ) , his cityscape was inhabited by characters whose lives were condensed into their names , a few gestures or scraps of dialogue ( ‘ Hey , Eddie , can you lend me a few bucks … |
| 9 | Having endorsed this as a learning technique , let me make a few recommendations and observations of my own and list my personal ‘ top ten ’ . |
| 10 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 11 | The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme . |