Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [art] few [noun] " 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 | 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 | He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier . |
| 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 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are three main highland regions ( Figure 4.5 ) : Ishtar Terra , which is a plateau ; Aphrodite Terra , which is rougher , and bears wide linear depressions a few kilometres deep ; and Beta Regio , which could possibly be two shield volcanoes . |
| 18 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 23 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 24 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 25 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 26 | It was certainly impressive from the cool , dark hilltop a few leagues away , where two figures were watching with considerable interest . |
| 27 | At Faial there is a new bridge over the Ribeira Seca as the old one was washed away in a violent storm a few years ago . |
| 28 | Stray shots buzzing all around , Ace threw herself behind a large fallen stalactite a few yards from the sandbags , just as her ammunition ran out . |
| 29 | It was hardly a coincidence that the MATIF launched an Italian Government Bond future contract a few weeks ahead of LIFFE 's similar product in September 1991 . |
| 30 | I 'm watching a silent T.V. The flickering light from the screen changes the mood of the dark room every few seconds , but I 'm impervious to mood . |