Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 2 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 3 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |
| 4 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 5 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 6 | Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye . |
| 7 | By 1800 the overseers , rate books indicate a few changes in the personnel living down Pig Street . |
| 8 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 9 | Your only problem is choosing , and before you choose read these words to understand a few basics about the quality of Italian accommodation . |
| 10 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 11 | Until the eighteenth century settlement within the neighbouring parish of West Bromwich took the form of small groups of cottages clustered together in ‘ ends ’ around the heaths , where squatters had opportunities to graze a few animals and to build a little workshop . |
| 12 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 13 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 14 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 15 | The couple 's interest in gardening began with the desire to grow fuchsias to fill a few pots and baskets . |
| 16 | Sometimes the youngsters flew a few feet up into the air to take the offering — to return immediately to the safety of the wire . |
| 17 | For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall . |
| 18 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 19 | But I mean I was thinking like as well cos like we did taxes like a few weeks ago did n't we , and the tax that the government get off that race , I mean seventy five million on the whole race , |
| 20 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 21 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 22 | Having taken better care of it than Besty , or more accurately Besty 's hangers on , he invested some of it in a Sydney sports shop a few months ago , which he 'll run when he retires . |
| 23 | Situated on the edge of the pedestrian zone , is the friendly Hotel Haymon , consisting of two Tyrolean chalet style buildings set a few yards apart . |
| 24 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 25 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 26 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 27 | with some , some things to write a few words in , some things to tick , some things to make a mark on one of the numbers and so forth so erm er you know it 's erm but as I say it 's difficult to er |
| 28 | The androids ignored the few bursts that issued from his gun and carved smoking scars in the wall . |
| 29 | Hibs showed a few signs of life when Tweed and Weir threatened on the counter-attack . |
| 30 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |