Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 2 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 3 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 4 | Nearly all of this material was obtained by scooping the top of the surface , or by picking up small rocks up to about fist-size , or from cores a few centimetres in diameter and up to 2.4 metres deep . |
| 5 | On the other hand , lifting a genuine wineglass a few feet in the air by sheer mental energy required several hours of systematic preparation if the wizard wished to prevent the simple principle of leverage flicking his brain out through his ears . |
| 6 | Pulsars are compact stars a few kilometres in diameter with masses around . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Without going into calculations , virtually any realistic combination of antenna size and power at the feed will result in a power flux density a few metres in front of the dish of less than 10mW per square centimetre — the nationally accepted long-term human exposure level for electromagnetic radiation . |
| 9 | And she has taught her new classmates a few words in Serbo-Croat . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 11 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |
| 12 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |