Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have been a very different scene a few weeks earlier . |
| 10 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 13 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 14 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 15 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 18 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 21 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 22 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 23 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 24 | As I sat facing the prisoners with an automatic weapon across my knees , I could still see the wounded German Officer a few yards away . |
| 25 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 26 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 27 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 28 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 29 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 30 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |