Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
| 2 | WARRENDER fitness instructor , gives Citizen readers a few tips on how to trim up for the summer . |
| 3 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 4 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 5 | An investigation by the Building Research Establishment a few years ago identified over a thousand different kinds of faults in new homes under construction . |
| 6 | He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap . |
| 7 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 8 | We reached Brigade H.Q a few minutes later and drove the jeep round to the back of the house where we unloaded the canisters . |
| 9 | Our route , although a time-saver , took us near Iraq — over the area that became the battlefield for Desert Storm a few months later . |
| 10 | Such material was part of most introductory courses in British geography degree programmes a few decades ago — using texts such as Forde ( 1934 ) — but today the topic is much less studied , though there are notable exceptions such as Brookfield 's collaborative work with anthropologists in Melanesia ( Brookfield and Brown , 1963 ) and Watts 's ( 1983 ) detailed study of northern Nigeria . |
| 11 | Sheldon Glashow writing his thesis at Harvard University a few years later , and Abdus Salam and John Ward independently in Imperial College , London , took this similarity seriously . |
| 12 | At his lunch break a few days later Mr Wolski took his sandwiches and sat on the benches opposite the eagle and looked at her . |
| 13 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 14 | She moved into North Yorkshire a few weeks ago from Mulhous Zoo in France with everyone believing her to be one of only eight Lears Macaws in captivity anywhere . |
| 15 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 16 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 17 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 18 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |
| 19 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 20 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 21 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 22 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 23 | The collection of rubbish every fortnight will not start until June to give those people not already using the recycling scheme a few months to get used to the idea . |
| 24 | Four rooms are also available at a supplement of £40 ( single £58 ) at the small but elegant Bridgend Hotel a few miles inland ( all private facilities ) . |
| 25 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
| 26 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
| 27 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 28 | The problems faced by Britain 's loudspeaker industry a few years ago , when political upheavals in Zaire disrupted cobalt supplies , highlight the crucial nature of the strategic metals . |
| 29 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 30 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |