Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 32 | That 's a small farming village a few kilometres out of Bad Schwarzendorn . |
| 33 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |
| 34 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 35 | In referring to the non-collection rates of community charge a few weeks ago , Councillor said , the outstanding debt will cripple essential services and I dread to think what effect it will have on our schools , social services and the state of the streets . |
| 36 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 37 | ‘ OK , so there was poor Georgi Markov a few years ago in London . |
| 38 | Again un-named as yet , it has a provisional grading of E8 6c , and supersedes a pitch climbed by Grant Farquhar a few weeks previously , which finished up the top section of Lord of the Flies . |
| 39 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 40 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 41 | ‘ We 'll leave it for now and stream Uncle Manfred a few times . ’ |
| 42 | You can help this fall in body temperature by being inactive all evening ( sitting in front of the television ? ) , but if you are quite active physically then you can maintain a sense of comfort if you turn down your room thermostat a few degrees in the evening or if you roll up your sleeves and aid heat loss this way . |
| 43 | Or will he — as Mr Major a few months ago implied he would , before backing off — ‘ go for growth ’ ? |
| 44 | The Strozzi-Sacrati collection achieved celebrity status a few years ago when a forged will was discovered in a bureau in the palace , placed there by an antique dealer sporting a false moustache who had gained entry on the pretext of checking items in the collection . |
| 45 | This time it was Maldita , a grey mare who had slipped into the yard already broken as part of a job lot a few weeks ago . |
| 46 | John Blair-Gould , defending , told the court she had left her £15,000-a-year job with a film distribution company a few weeks ago and would be working as a freelance , reviewing books and films . |
| 47 | The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling . |
| 48 | The last time I saw him was at Walton Studios a few months before they closed down and the was he was doing he said he was unable to get a film to direct , so he was going to be Herbert Wilcox first assistant director on his forthcoming production . |
| 49 | In French West Africa a few stations , like the fine one at Bobo-Diolassu in Senegal , were built in a recognizably local style . |
| 50 | Siouxsie Sioux , about ten years ago , adopting a pose very similar to that of P J Harvey a few weeks ago , only she was wearing a Greek fisherman 's hat |
| 51 | At the time we asked Mrs Harvey a few questions . |
| 52 | In France , Jean-Pierre Chevènement , who resigned as defence minister shortly after the outbreak of war , accused the United States a few years ago of ‘ the organised cretinisation of our people . ’ |
| 53 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 54 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 55 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 56 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 57 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 58 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 59 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 60 | Benredjeb gave former WBC champion Hodkinson a few problems before being stopped in the eighth round of a European featherweight title challenge in December 1989 . |