Example sentences of "[noun] [art] few [noun pl] as " in BNC.

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1 Balanced lightly on the balls of her feet , Polly turned the wheel a few degrees as Seawitch heeled over .
2 The man of the house told us that he had to repaint his boat every few weeks as the chemicals stripped it back to bare wood.And his wife complained of burns all up one arm from washing her clothes in contaminated water .
3 With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes .
4 The stave is budded and sports a few leaves as in some versions of the tarot .
5 The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation .
6 William himself , by comparison , seems to represent a remarkable degree of geographical stability : he was born and died in Islington , seems to have travelled but little , and apparently lacked either the desire or the need to move house every few years as his father had done .
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