Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you saw their scorching live performance of Leave Them All Behind on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago then there was little else here to be surprised at . |
| 2 | What is the true story of the Japanese businessman who returned a stolen Impressionist painting to France and was decorated for it by President Mitterrand on the occasion of the reopening of the Louvre a few years ago ? |
| 3 | And the finding of the suit a few years ago was the start of the hunt that they now have every year , ’ she explained matter-of-factly as though it were the most usual thing in the world . |
| 4 | At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan . |
| 5 | Do n't laugh , but I had a dream that Leeds beat Sunderland 7–0 in the return of the CCC a few days ago . |
| 6 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 7 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 8 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 9 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |
| 10 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 11 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 12 | Let me ask some members of the congregation a few questions : |
| 13 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 14 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 15 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 16 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 17 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 18 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 19 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 20 | If this is not possible , allow roughly the same amount of space on each opposing side ( for example , by placing one side of the rug a few feet from a wall and the opposite side the same distance from a large piece of furniture ) . |
| 21 | We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison 's . |
| 22 | I was passed out after a night drinking rice wine and native beer with my band of happy , brother war correspondents in the bar of a hotel a few miles from the front . |
| 23 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 24 | Former Greater Manchester deputy chief constable John Stalker said he believed Warrington was chosen as a target because it was the scene of an attack a few weeks ago which resulted in arrests . |