Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife dies in the opening few minutes of the movie and he spends the rest of his life mourning her . |
| 2 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 3 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 4 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 5 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 6 | Her sufferings were enough to fill a few episodes of the soap and showed that career success is n't a guarantee of happiness . |
| 7 | One of the few recommendations of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report of 1989 into the supply of beer that was adopted by the government was to bring tenants under the protection of the Landlord and Tenant Act . |
| 8 | Into these they put a few handfuls of the clay and cow-dung mixture and then , adding water , kneaded it until it was liquid and as pale and frothing as freshly-churned cream . |
| 9 | We all thought that Trotsky could have run rings round him , but it was Stalin who survived to wreck the last few hopes of the Revolution and now to swallow up Eastern Europe . ’ |