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

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1 The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks .
2 He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients .
3 The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field .
4 Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about .
5 When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days .
6 Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher .
7 To tell the truth I 'll be glad to escape from the little horrors for a few hours !
8 For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds .
9 Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop .
10 No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ?
11 Still , most of us were glad to be relieved of responsibility for our failing learners for a few months .
12 It was thought by the producers that the programme slipped out of the top ten ratings for a few weeks because of the squeamishness of some viewers , but this was probably just a seasonal fluctuation .
13 Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them .
14 The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long .
15 Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface .
16 Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact .
17 Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive .
18 On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’
19 They blew their cash on Monopoly-money advances for a few celebs .
20 The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption .
21 Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years .
22 She tried low-calorie diets for a few week .
23 That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds .
24 We 'll skip over the next verses for a few moments ; let's turn to another set of pages of the newspaper to see the message from the foreign correspondents about alliances — verses 14 to 19 .
25 A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain .
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