Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 2 | Mr Harland added : ‘ Unfortunately in this case a few of our postmen failed to interpret those rules correctly . |
| 3 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 4 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 5 | You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top . |
| 6 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 7 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 8 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 9 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 10 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 11 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 12 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 13 | To this day a few of the fields around the village tell of its past history . |
| 14 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 15 | When recounting this story to some friends a few weeks ago , one of them added : ‘ Well , even that has changed . |
| 16 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 17 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 18 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 19 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 20 | Against this gloom a few heroic individuals stood out , both for their ingenuity and their concern for agricultural well-being . |
| 21 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 22 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 23 | Post a letter to another country a few hundred miles along the West African coast : it will be hand-sorted in a sorting office at the back of st Paul 's cathedral in London . |
| 24 | This time a few , reluctant drops spattered the millpond surface but did not disturb it . |
| 25 | By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them . |
| 26 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 27 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 28 | Self-indulgence , simply because facilities are there to be used , is a poor substitute for prior thought and it is amazing how much paper a few cross-tabulations can use up . |
| 29 | It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg . |
| 30 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |