Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments hesitation so did I. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! " |
| 7 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 8 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 9 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 10 | After a few moments Cowslip said , " Look , do you see those jackdaws hanging round the carrots ? |
| 11 | Mmm … only a few players Id like to see in the side to be honest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Knit a few inches background . |
| 17 | ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier . |
| 18 | Only a few hours drive from Glasgow to a world of serenity and tranquillity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 22 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 23 | In this way , one of the best Home Secretaries of the post-war era was abruptly removed from the Home Office at a few hours notice , leaving behind a collection of unfinished artefacts to be completed by other hands . |
| 24 | Last week the Ulster Amateur Drama Festival had to be moved at a few hours notice , after Belfast 's Grand Opera House was extensively damaged by a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 25 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 26 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 27 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 28 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 29 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 30 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |