Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 2 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 4 | The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity . |
| 5 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 6 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 7 | He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier . |
| 8 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 9 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 10 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 11 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 12 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 13 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 14 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 15 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 16 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 17 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 18 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 19 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 20 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 21 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 22 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 23 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 24 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 25 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 26 | The multiple orgasm in the woman and rapid recovery of erection after ejaculation in the man were " discovered " by popular writers a few years ago and plugged relentlessly ; yet in the woman one violent orgasm may outweigh several minor ones or the latter may not even be invariably desired , while in the man a rapid re-erection is often physically impossible ( in the more virile youngster it usually takes half to three-quarters of an hour , in the older man anything up to 24 , but there is wide variation between individuals and in differently stimulating situations ) . |
| 27 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 28 | When recounting this story to some friends a few weeks ago , one of them added : ‘ Well , even that has changed . |
| 29 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 30 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |