Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [noun] was " 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 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 5 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 6 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |