Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’
2 But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face .
3 Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place .
4 In all but a few cases interviews were taped .
5 In a few cases data were not available for some of the more minor roads entering a junction .
6 Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness .
7 Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf .
8 Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death .
9 One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton .
10 Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works .
11 Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him .
12 For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration .
13 The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray .
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