Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 2 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |
| 3 | The new dynasty , the German and Protestant House of Hanover , had a few scares from the Scottish end of the realm , notably the 1715 Rebellion in favour of the Catholic Stuart exile , James . |
| 4 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
| 5 | We recognise the face and words of Robert J. Oppenheimer , leader of the Manhattan Project which gave America the atomic bomb : " I remembered a few lines from the Hindu Scripture , the Bhagavad-Gita : " Now I am become death , the destroyer of worlds . " " |
| 6 | The hotel is just a few minutes from the pleasant sandy beach and close to the bustling central market . |
| 7 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 8 | Just a few minutes from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ( the car park is just 500 yards away ) , this typically Victorian house takes its name from the sequoia tree that graces the pretty lawned gardens . |
| 9 | The main problem in Preston today is the traffic , especially along the Main Street , and the church 's foundations must be suffering , as the tower is only a few feet from a sharp bend in the street . |
| 10 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 11 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 12 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 13 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 14 | For instance , a few petals from a large flower can be remade into one that is much smaller . |
| 15 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 16 | Some distance away , only a few yards from the vast unfinished Anglican cathedral , he found lodgings ( 13 St James 's Road ) with a spinsterish landlady who by origin was a Northern Irish Protestant . |
| 17 | Set among the pine trees just a few yards from the white sandy beach , the hotel has immediate access to all facilities in the Forte Hotel Village , at no extra charge , in addition to its own select amenities . |
| 18 | Waterskiing already takes place in lake 105 a few yards from the contested area . |
| 19 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 20 | Only a few tracks from the current album ‘ Zooropa ’ were aired . |
| 21 | Finally , there 's Sandra After Dark , a cable show that offers a twist on the chat format by inviting guests to drop by , take a few drinks from the topless waitresses , and talk casually , with the kind of natural interruptions that occur at a party . |
| 22 | It is strongly advisable that , before you start to give directions , you have at least a few lessons from a trained Alexander teacher to make sure you are on the right track . |
| 23 | The new location could be only a few miles from the present site — especially if one of the company 's priorities is to retain existing staff . |
| 24 | Now an engineering student at Szeged University , he is one of dozens of deserters and draft dodgers from the JNA who must endure a life of exile in this pretty town , just a few miles from the Serbian border . |
| 25 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 26 | On the road to the meeting , a few miles from the nuclear factory , she had an accident by a wall near a river . |
| 27 | and a few couples from the coeducational schools ventured forth to dance . |
| 28 | The murder victims were Mrs Kathleen Curran and her daughter Angela , who lived at Edenvale Avenue , a few doors from the accused . |
| 29 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 30 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |