Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 2 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 3 | Instead , their own difficult first album is one extra twist of its theme , three songs and a few warped guitars overdubs short of a classic which by local debutants ' terms is almost an unprecedented if also an easy success . |
| 4 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 7 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 8 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 9 | The archaeological evidence for this hunting activity over very long periods , from 12,000 to 4000 BC , consists of flint implements and a few bone objects from both open settlement sites and caves . |
| 10 | After you 've loaded your network drivers ( which are memory hungry ) , ANSI.SYS , SMARTDRV.SYS , RAMDRV.SYS , MOUSE.COM , EGA.SYS , EMM386.EXE , CD ROM drivers , Sound card drivers and a few other bits and bobs , not to mention your memory resident anti-virus software , you can find yourself getting the ‘ not enough memory to run xxxxxx.exe ’ rather more often than you 'd like . |
| 11 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 12 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 13 | So , give or take a couple of centuries and a few hundred light years , I 'm home . |
| 14 | In the oceans , too , as we saw , the turnover of life can be prodigious , but except in the mangroves and a few other places there are no big and permanent plants ; the only complex , permanent living architecture in the oceans is provided by the coral reefs . |
| 15 | Therefore , the nine bogie cars and a few four wheelers were transferred to Sutton and worked the Mitcham line from there . |
| 16 | Telford Avenue was now practically cleared of ex-L.C.C. cars and the few remaining spaces there were filled by ex-Walthamstow cars , contemporary with the ex-Croydon E/1s and closely similar to them . |
| 17 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 18 | Each team had a couple of scoring opportunities and a few short corners but the game dragged on to a scoreless draw . |
| 19 | Today they have about 27,000 US outlets including department stores , drug stores , computer stores , airport shops and a few bookshops . |
| 20 | The back of the house faces south , an avenue of giant elms and a few old oaks lay over that way . |
| 21 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 22 | And that 's the strongest way of all of making timbers and looking at medieval pictures and the few medieval survivors , that 's the way it was done . |
| 23 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's only five years , nine months and a few days now ! ’ |
| 25 | The reluctance of the odd electron to engage in bonding appears to be retained in these complexes and the few X-ray structures obtained so far indicate unusual bonding . |
| 26 | Inside were a couple of building-society account books and a few bank notes . |
| 27 | And there were other things ; saliva drooled from her lips and every few seconds she gave a retching cough . |
| 28 | The Mercedes was equipped with an electric sunroof , automatic transmission , anti-lock brakes and a few more extras that swelled the price by over £4,000 . |
| 29 | The libraries in the country districts were housed in the schools but a few were in church halls where schools were not available . |
| 30 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |