Example sentences of "[art] [noun] every few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | As you should change the soil in the wormery every few weeks , this is the time to search through the soil for egg capsules . |
2 | But Ninagawa stops the action every few minutes to make tiny adjustments . |
3 | If the launch seems slow , check the speed every few seconds . |
4 | A perk of the office is to be invited to lunch with the Queen every few years . |
5 | If you change the colours every few rows on the first part of the ‘ turn ’ and reverse the colours on the second part , you get a circular change of colour which is quite marvellous — worth the effort of sewing in the ends ! |
6 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
7 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
8 | He crossed to his drinks cabinet and poured himself another large measure of whisky , glancing at the phone every few seconds as if willing it to ring . |
9 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
10 | If you get out of position and if you find yourself too low , move up slowly in small steps , checking the movement every few feet . |
11 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
12 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
13 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
14 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
15 | Check the clothes every few months , or moths and mould may flourish unhindered . |
16 | If the decision is made to continue with a circuit , use a well-banked turn and monitor the airspeed every few seconds . |