Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A genuinely corinthian sailor who spurns sponsorship , she shoe-horns her racing and preparation into a few weeks ' annual holiday taken from London-based solicitors Farrers and Co . |
| 2 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 3 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 4 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 5 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 6 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 7 | Summarize the consumption figures for coal and petroleum in a few sentences . |
| 8 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 9 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 10 | I was terrified of saying anything that the kidnappers would view as a coded message or as offensive in any way , in case John should suffer for it , but how was I to put a year 's worth of thoughts and feelings into a few lines ? |
| 11 | After baking , pierce with a skewer and spoon over a few tablespoons of brandy . |
| 12 | Comparisons with published data for central Atlantic islands are restricted to samples of common rock types , mainly transitional basalts , alkali basalts and basanites with a few nephelinites . |
| 13 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 14 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 15 | The stew is made first by first stir-frying onions , garlic and squid for a few minutes , and then adding tomatoes , tomato purée and wine . |
| 16 | During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries , health centres , and hospitals in a few districts . |
| 17 | Pile this back into the skins , sprinkle with grated cheese and grill for a few minutes . |
| 18 | There are possible side effects such as nausea and headaches for a few days and extremely rarely there are other serious complications . |
| 19 | They may not be the best of friends , but between them they can quite well be left in charge of Harry and Hillmarden for a few days . ’ |
| 20 | Tim and Sophie had been due to fly out to meet Julie and Elizabeth within a few days . |
| 21 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
| 22 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 23 | Trains can link Newcastle and London in a few minutes over two and a half hours . |
| 24 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 25 | List all your outgoings and expenses over a few weeks . |
| 26 | Add the brandy to the meat juices and heat for a few seconds before igniting . |
| 27 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , we 're supposed to know something about handguns , and fire off a few rounds every so often . |
| 29 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |