Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I I shall leave you to go through the questions for a few minutes . |
| 32 | The age of the organisation : many businesses and other organisations begin to grow through the efforts of a few individuals ( eg. owner-directors , or the founder of a political pressure group ) and tend to be highly centralised ( power culture ) . |
| 33 | Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world . |
| 34 | Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations . |
| 35 | A homestead consists typically of a man and his wife ( or wives ) with their children , and in addition the families of a few other close patrilineal relatives . |
| 36 | We will know the details in a few weeks ’ time . |
| 37 | It is easy to estimate the worths of a few significant nodes : fa(N) fb(N) |
| 38 | It is always tempting to push on , but why not consider the pleasures of a few hours snoozing in the sun followed by a swift descent on hardening snow ? |
| 39 | The long wait was almost over and they expected to be greeting the passengers in a few minutes . |
| 40 | They mentioned the names of a few judges who they did not think highly of . |
| 41 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 42 | There are exceptions , of course ; anyone can quote the names of a few specialists who have attained local or even national eminence . |
| 43 | I believe I can read the names of a few redundant colonial administrators . |
| 44 | And it is no defence of restrictive trade to argue , in effect , that it taxes the Top-40 masses to satisfy the cravings of a few sophisticates . |
| 45 | The fry remain in the streams for a few weeks , feeding on the flush of insects and crustaceans that appear in the warming waters . |
| 46 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 47 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 48 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 49 | I say this in the context of a situation which should have your whole nation incensed ; because of a terrible insult which is to be perpetrated by the Westminster Government for a further 30 years in the interests of a few Englishmen . |
| 50 | He continued to hold her by the arms for a few seconds longer , studying her face . |
| 51 | There wo n't be anything substantial from the labs for a few hours yet . |
| 52 | He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry . |
| 53 | This case began before my use of LM 's and I prescribed Lycopodium 6C three times daily which dealt with the symptoms within a few days . |
| 54 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 55 | If the food you have given is not completely eaten , or if the water becomes cloudy , stop feeding the shrimps for a few days . |
| 56 | This means that the State helps the community in resisting the amassing of wealth in the hands of a few members , because of the disruptive implication of such a process . |
| 57 | Economic growth in Latin America has accumulated benefits in the hands of a few , rather than distributing them as predicted by the modernists . |
| 58 | ‘ It concentrates power in the hands of a few , necessitates a military-style secrecy and undermines the principles of human liberty . |
| 59 | The more power in Europe lay in the hands of a few strong States , the more a State system emerged in which the position of each was established through the recognition of the others . |
| 60 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |