Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Forcing herself to keep her actions smooth and steady , she tightened the sail again and turned the wheel a few degrees the other way .
2 Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over .
3 He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment .
4 She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her .
5 The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time .
6 At the beginning of the year he signed for the Oxford Products Ducati team but the link-up never quite worked out and Robert ended the association a few weeks ago .
7 Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) .
8 He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently .
9 There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital …
10 no fuss and I said ooh , I said I forgot about her being forty , I bought the card a few weeks ago
11 Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers .
12 She had seen it staggering around on uncertain legs a few mornings before .
13 As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before .
14 WARRENDER fitness instructor , gives Citizen readers a few tips on how to trim up for the summer .
15 I was in the air force a few years later . ’
16 He got me a ring a few years ago .
17 Covered from neck to knee in a thick towelling robe , she swept back into the bedroom a few moments later .
18 The fourth member of the farmhouse group was led blinking out of his bedroom a few seconds later , a thin , scrawny young man with lank hair .
19 The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’
20 But Ninagawa stops the action every few minutes to make tiny adjustments .
21 His presence in the pitch darkness was marked only by the dull glow of a cigarette , its red tip pulsing into light every few moments to reveal the black pencil of the Colonel 's moustache as he sat , immobile behind his desk , reflecting on the previous day 's visitor .
22 Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace .
23 Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives .
24 rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing
25 She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later .
26 He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago .
27 One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 .
28 In Moma Parsheen 's visionless eyes a few tears welled .
29 It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door .
30 After looking out into the daylight , it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust .
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