Example sentences of "a few [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables . |
| 2 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 3 | Innumerable country spires turn bronze amid newly ploughed fields of copper , just for a few moments before the ball disappears . |
| 4 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 5 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 6 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 7 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 8 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 11 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
| 12 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the ICPC said the investigation into the death started early on Sunday morning , a few hours after the body of Gerald Maginn was found . |
| 14 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 15 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 16 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 17 | The original Disneyland was about a fantasy castle , a few rides and a cast of cute , costumed characters that children adored . |
| 18 | Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 19 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 20 | A few knocks and a bit of household dust will complete the process over the years to come . |
| 21 | Some of these sporting ‘ characters ’ play golf and appear with comedians such as Jimmy Tarbuck and Bruce Forsyth or actor Sean Connery for a few holes and a bit of friendly banter . |
| 22 | The Post Office sells a few souvenirs and the cafe sells sandwiches " to go " , and there is a converted barn selling walking gear and souvenirs with a smashing little tea shop . |
| 23 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 24 | Skipper Andy Townsend , another Norwich old boy said : ‘ If we can get them all back fit again , get a few wins and the confidence going , there 's no reason why we ca n't get up there . ’ |
| 25 | I ad-libbed for a few minutes while the re-take was set up and they warmed to me , which boosted my confidence and gave me the edge . |
| 26 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 27 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 28 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 29 | As it was only a few minutes before the shop closed , he forbore to detail the checkout girl with his usual badinage about the finer points of philosophy or astrophysics . |
| 30 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |