Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In a few moments lonely Tess was asleep , in the bedroom once used by the young wives of her ancestors . |
2 | A couple of boy-soldiers spend a few moments admiring Anastasia . |
3 | In a few areas great progress is being made . |
4 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
5 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
6 | In a few cases home-based treatment using the same approach may be helpful , although large-scale use of domiciliary treatment does not appear to be justified . |
7 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |
8 | Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases . |
9 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
10 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
11 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
12 | In a few boatyards sea-going craft were being built or repaired . |
13 | There were a few growls front Amery , who had also been excluded , but not much more . |
14 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
15 | Quite simply mastery of colonial languages gave a few people unfettered power . |
16 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
17 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
18 | Harvey lived with his wife and two children a few miles outside town on the road to Laredo and the Mexican border . |
19 | A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic . |
20 | It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time . |
21 | In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in |
22 | They were four-and-three-quarter inches long , and would fit onto most machines , but gave only a few seconds extra time . |
23 | A few pieces miscellaneous jewellery . |