Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 2 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 3 | The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders . |
| 4 | The few hill-walkers and climbers that fancy a weekend away in February certainly do n't bring enough custom to keep the hotel owners in beaten copper coffee tables and onyx standard lamps . |
| 5 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 6 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 7 | Others would be borne by the few feminists and freaks who preferred girls , for the whole thing would be voluntary ; no compulsion would be needed ; PopCon 's research had been thorough . |
| 8 | The few references and scraps of information we have about the very early recruits suggests that these may have included more girls of middle-class origin and certainly some from orphanages and boarding-schools — girls sometimes from middle-class families fallen on hard times . |
| 9 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 10 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 11 | The Soul Eater crouched for a few moments and Nuadu saw that a thin silvery fluid was beginning to course along its hollow talons . |
| 12 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 13 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 14 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |
| 15 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 16 | But all day he would n't talk to me , and I must admit , I did get quite a few looks and remarks from boys there . |
| 17 | Once again they were relatively complex to use and whilst smaller and faster still restricted the user to a few faces and sizes at any one time . |
| 18 | A few supermarkets and food shops were open , most with long queues of customers waiting in the intense heat , hoping to stock up on food and other necessities in case the paralysis of the city 's life continues . |
| 19 | As always , we have to be prepared beforehand , and as we can not start the job without tools , this is the place for a few dos and don'ts . |
| 20 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 21 | The couple 's interest in gardening began with the desire to grow fuchsias to fill a few pots and baskets . |
| 22 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 23 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 24 | A few bleeps and bloops only ( just like KLF ! ) |
| 25 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 26 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 27 | There are hundreds of small hideous terrace houses in livid brick , a few chapels and railwaymen 's clubs , humped in the flat countryside around the railway workshops and one of the most dangerous bridges in the country . |
| 28 | He sat in the dining-room , able to enjoy a few biscuits and fruit rather than the ‘ gargantuan midday meal which was hitherto compulsory ’ . |
| 29 | Give Whelan a few games and Deane something to think about while he 's on the bench . |
| 30 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |