Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collection of rubbish every fortnight will not start until June to give those people not already using the recycling scheme a few months to get used to the idea . |
| 2 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 3 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 5 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 6 | The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling . |
| 7 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 8 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , at the Gardener Centre a few months after I took after we did a workshop which Radio Brighton took part in and came up and gave a class in terms of how to make the most out of your local radio station , and that kind of thing we really need to develop even further . |
| 10 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 11 | He was actually in on the design and setting up of this hospital when Ocean Empress was still in the commissioning stage a few years back . |
| 12 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 13 | This quirk was to come under scrutiny in the Liverpool post-mortems a few months later . |
| 14 | But before they had reached the back gate a few drops of rain had already plopped warningly on their heads . |
| 15 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 16 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 17 | The Sparcserver 10 introduces a compact new version of the desktop pizza box enclosure : by lowering the bottom of the pizza box a few millimetres and stacking MBus and SBus expansion slots , SMCC engineers have created a more powerful desktop server with the same footprint as the Sparcserver 2 but with up to five times the applications throughput , five times the memory capacity , double the disk storage and 25% more expansion capacity . |
| 18 | His remarks reflected the general alteration in TANU policy which was to be embodied in the Arusha Declaration a few days later . |
| 19 | Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left , Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-western limit . |
| 20 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 21 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 22 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 23 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 24 | Carefully measuring out distances and angle of fire , the Doctor triggered the blaster on its constant wide-beam setting , directing it at a spot on the tunnel floor a few feet ahead , where there was a sharp corner . |
| 25 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 26 | I was in the air force a few years later . ’ |
| 27 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 28 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 29 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 30 | The government blamed the drought on El Niño , the warm ocean current which , sweeping in near the Pacific coast every few years , caused wide fluctuations in the local weather . |