Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits . |
| 2 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 3 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 4 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 5 | Garrison Savanah has a few tales to tell … he won the big race at Cheltenham 3 years ago and tomorrow the Gloucestershire favourite will be off and running for the big prize at Newbury |
| 6 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 7 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 8 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 9 | The same charge will apply to the north and south car parks in Victoria Road , which were made short stay car parks a few years ago . |
| 10 | Think the closing dates a few days time is n't it ? |
| 11 | Support for my ailing home town club extends a few years before the glorious 1964 10–0 victory over Darlington , part of Belle Vue folklore . |
| 12 | Leapor 's poetry records a few occasions of anger during her employment at Edgcote House . |
| 13 | When the airbrakes are opened , some lift is lost so that the glider sinks a few feet very rapidly . |
| 14 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 15 | The stair banisters had excrescences shaped like pew ends every few treads . |
| 16 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 17 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 18 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 19 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 20 | In other cases the ion state is only weakly bound , so that only a few discrete levels exist , and the band shows a few lines followed by a broad continuous portion . |
| 21 | This whole process takes a few minutes . |
| 22 | Installation is n't difficult — screwing the battery onto the board takes a few seconds . |
| 23 | Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations , both on programmers and hardware . |
| 24 | Each jump crosses a few light-hours in a bio-second or two . |
| 25 | Watching Nicolas Cage squeezing his ‘ conceptual ’ approach to acting into Tom Cruise 's boy 's own flying suit provides a few laughs , but otherwise this is awful stuff |
| 26 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 27 | In the last phase of the shot the effect of impact causes a few cycles of vibration at a frequency of about 30 Hz . |
| 28 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |
| 29 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 30 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |