Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play during the latter interludes — humane warmth not being Flannery 's forte — seems somewhat enfeebled . |
| 2 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 3 | If using ordinary rollers , aid the process by switching your hairdryer on to the cold setting and whizz over hair for a few minutes before unwinding the rollers . |
| 4 | We realized that each of us would be a big story for a few days , but that would pass and then we 'd be able to get on with the real work of getting to know our families and friends again . |
| 5 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 6 | A limited contract for a few sessions , at least in the first instance , is always preferable . |
| 7 | The legislation protects their consciences , and in charity makes financial provision for the few priests who will feel that they must leave . |
| 8 | President Reagan found it difficult to reduce the US budget deficit for the same reasons . |
| 9 | I 'd have to stay in Holyhead for a few nights . |
| 10 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 11 | The downfall of Mrs Thatcher , the arrival of John Major at 10 Downing Street and the Gulf War took the spotlight away from the Group 's activities for a few months . |
| 12 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 13 | And er Ivy got married and she stopped the teaching and died just that same year and then there was the a change for the both teachers . |
| 14 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
| 15 | Perhaps , while she hassled , she managed to forget Montaine for a few hours . |
| 16 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 17 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 18 | They talked about their plans for a few minutes . |
| 19 | Three years later , during the carnival of 1645 , John Evelyn saw Ercole in Lidia by Monteverdi 's pupil and successor at St. Mark 's , Giovanni Rovetta ( C. 1596–1668 ) , at the Teatro Novissimo , with ‘ variety of sceanes painted and contrived with no lesse art of perspective , and machines for flying in the aire , and other wonderfull motions … one of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent ’ ; and the San Cassiano had a chorus for a few years . |
| 20 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 21 | He was unlikely to have her arrested again , and an unwanted pass might seem like fair payment for a few hours spent out of the confines of her depressing little room . |
| 22 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 23 | Once Queen Victoria had been established on the throne for a few decades , she acquired a natural authority when dealing with her prime ministers . |
| 24 | The third-ranking member of the CPV politburo , he had served as acting Premier for a few months in 1988 following the death of Pham Hung , but had then been dislodged from the post by the more conservative Do Muoi . |
| 25 | Although the initial allocation of function and content to some packages will be necessarily vague , their very existence nevertheless provides an invaluable framework for the many specialists working on the project . |
| 26 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 27 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
| 28 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 29 | After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised . |
| 30 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |