Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 2 | times Snaith was a busy port with a harbour and ferry across the river to Selby , one of the few Aire crossings in the area . |
| 3 | Corporate finance specialists see insurance as one of the few growth areas in Europe in the short and medium term . |
| 4 | A similar portfolio had enabled another ‘ unemployable ’ student to obtain freelance work as one of the few fashion models in a wheelchair . |
| 5 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |
| 6 | Dagenham , which is currently scheduled to produce 1,100 cars a day , is one of the few Ford plants in Europe where output is not planned to increase . |
| 7 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 8 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 9 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 10 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 11 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 12 | But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this . |
| 13 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 14 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 15 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 16 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 17 | On the face of it , the Friend 3 seems the model least likely to benefit from flexibility — the thick stem interferes little with the working of the cams , both designs have the same strength rating and there 's only a few grams difference in weight between them . |
| 18 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 19 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 20 | Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French . |
| 21 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 22 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 23 | Here a few chance changes in genetic structure , often quite minor in themselves , can result in a dramatic change in the phylogeny of a given species . |
| 24 | Even a few microns difference in the size of a component can cost valuable minutes on the production line as machines are re-set . |
| 25 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 26 | A dusty photo album in an old-fashioned padded binding , a few studio portraits in crumbling cardboard frames , heaps of loose prints and curling snapshots , a few shiny leaflets . |
| 27 | Certainly some men of the S.A.S. did ( as Captain Derrick Harrison tells us ) make a few training flights in gliders when waiting at Fairford to be sent to France ; and the use of gliders for later operations was considered . |
| 28 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 29 | Later , along with two other historians who had , like me , secured entry to Oxford or Cambridge , I was given a few science tutorials in my last term at school . |
| 30 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |