Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Exercise that morning he had tossed his offering the few inches from his pocket to a waiting bucket . |
| 2 | Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses . |
| 3 | Even when they are provided for it usually amounts to their being dumped on the few professionals from black and ethnic groups . |
| 4 | It is one of the few letters from Theo that we have , and a remarkably frank one . |
| 5 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 6 | Latinos surged up to Hollywood Boulevard , one of the few breakthroughs from south of the Santa Monica Freeway , and trashed better-bred temples of consumption , such as Fredericks of Hollywood , the famous knicker store . |
| 7 | The result , at least in Nikol'skaia volost' , was that the few literates from the old regime were starting to occupy the best bureaucratic jobs and to run parish-pump economics and politics in ways barely supervised from above and in fact quite inimical to the aspirations of the guberniia officials . |
| 8 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
| 9 | The only sources so far identified in Europe comprise a few boulders from Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 10 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 11 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 12 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 14 | The weed was only a few metres from where Ell had slept . |
| 15 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 16 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 17 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 18 | This Australian CD is a class introduction to Parsons and his time , from his homespun days with The Shilos , through to the genesis of country rock and closing on some hard-to-get live takes , plus a few epics from ‘ Grievous Angel ’ — his final , whacked-out testimony . |
| 19 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 20 | She switched on the bedroom radio , tuning to her new station 's waveband — her competitive curiosity had prompted her to attempt an assessment of the English-language opposition earlier — and discovering a laid-back DJ playing jazz and fusion between taking a few calls from night-owl listeners , their character common around the world — shift-workers , troubled or lonely insomniacs , late-night revellers and cramming students . |
| 21 | ‘ We get a few calls from people who have lost heavy vehicles which ca n't be recovered by civilian companies . ’ |
| 22 | She recognised a few faces from Amelia 's party , but most of the dead people were strangers . |
| 23 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 24 | Later vehicles have a braided earth lead running to the body a few inches from the motor . |
| 25 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 26 | by installing the bath a few inches from the wall , Bill was able to create a tiled ledge for soaps and sponges . |
| 27 | Practise this until you can bring the model to a stop , in the hover , a few inches from the ground and just in front of you . |
| 28 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 29 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 30 | An open razor , the blade thick with clotted blood lay on top of it , a few inches from his right hand . |