Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
| 2 | It was one of the few BBC radio shows which played to full houses . |
| 3 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
| 4 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 5 | Scrum-half Ant Strachan ( centre ) and flanker Paul Henderson ( left ) take on the Ireland defence , while John Kirwan — one of the few World Cup players to prosper under Mains ' regime — looks to support . |
| 6 | As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation , may it long continue . |
| 7 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |
| 8 | After a few moments hesitation so did I. |
| 9 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 10 | Okay , we 'll come back and pick up with you again , if we may , in a few moments time , but I wanted to change tack once more and go back to the telephones , and waiting to talk to us now is Alan Spong , he 's a director of Lunn Poly , one of the country 's leading travel agents . |
| 11 | And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us . |
| 12 | At the same time , we need to make sure we respect people 's desire to have a few moments quietness immediately before and after worship . |
| 13 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 14 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 15 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 16 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 17 | After a few moments Cowslip said , " Look , do you see those jackdaws hanging round the carrots ? |
| 18 | Mmm … only a few players Id like to see in the side to be honest . |
| 19 | Quite a few I suspect . |
| 20 | Even an area a few metres square can be turned into a mysterious little haven , where every turn of the path reveals something fresh and exciting . |
| 21 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 22 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 23 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 24 | Knit a few inches background . |
| 25 | Each year there were a few sex crime trials which got particularly extensive publicity . |
| 26 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier . |
| 28 | Only a few hours drive from Glasgow to a world of serenity and tranquillity . |
| 29 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 30 | At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer . |