Example sentences of "with [art] few [noun] and [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
2 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
3 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
4 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
5 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
6 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
7 | Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . |
8 | At all sites at which there have been landings , manned or otherwise , the lunar surface is almost entirely blanketed in fine dust , with a few stones and boulders here and there . |
9 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
10 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |