Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | He scores a few goals , AND he s now their pen taker . |
| 62 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 63 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 64 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 65 | The Firm uses a few muscle-brains in the Middle East and so on , but they 're employed at several removes and a lot 's done to make sure they stay overseas . |
| 66 | In the tribal agencies , government authority frequently ends a few feet from the road . |
| 67 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |
| 68 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 69 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 70 | Includes a few names Paul Daniels might conjure with : Leroy Hutson , the two-step hero ; Leon Ware , formerly Marvin Gaye 's co-writer/arranger , former Motown genius Ronnie McNeir , and General Crook ; Rockie Robbins and Keni Burke , all massive heroes to a tiny audience . |
| 71 | Proprietor Vic Medley explains : ‘ The really good deals are on last year 's models left in stock , and that includes a few diesels . ’ |
| 72 | A Siddiqi speech usually includes a few references to the ‘ corrupt bogheap of western culture ’ . |
| 73 | that 's it for fans : Norway national team still includes a few guys playing their futba at home . |
| 74 | The stair banisters had excrescences shaped like pew ends every few treads . |
| 75 | NICK HASTED investigates the often perilous journey from printed page to silver screen , reveals a few stories still waiting in the wings — and dares film-makers to have a crack at some of literature 's more , erm , cerebral delights … |
| 76 | One theory is that the oil has sunk , and is drifting in globules a few metres below the surface of the water . |
| 77 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 78 | In other cases the ion state is only weakly bound , so that only a few discrete levels exist , and the band shows a few lines followed by a broad continuous portion . |
| 79 | It shows a few rehearsals as well . |
| 80 | Table 1 shows a few examples . |
| 81 | The diagram also shows a few attributes of the entities . |
| 82 | He watches the ball game — ‘ I could n't miss the ( New York ) Giants ; they 're my favourite team , ’ he would say later — sleeps a few hours , then drives 250 miles to Toronto . |
| 83 | Leapor 's poetry records a few occasions of anger during her employment at Edgcote House . |
| 84 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 85 | Then , after having taken the most daring steps forward he sometimes retreats a few paces , so that on comparing two paintings close in date the earlier example often seems more advanced and developed . |
| 86 | Unlike the ancient hill paintings the abstract pan does n't have any great meaning … the artists just hope it turns a few heads . |
| 87 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 88 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 89 | Nevertheless , the list of Confluent words which follows disregards the stances involved , which number almost nine thousand and are all named , and merely offers a few definitions , some of which must be regarded as tentative . |
| 90 | Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations , both on programmers and hardware . |