Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes work on both reins Skipper was going forward , with his brain between his ears . |
| 2 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 3 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 4 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 5 | It was one of the few BBC radio shows which played to full houses . |
| 6 | Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that is n't derived from a larger , more expensive product . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's very creative , ’ says PWL managing director David Howells , one of the few music industry figures who have seen Kylie 's work . |
| 8 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 9 | Scrum-half Ant Strachan ( centre ) and flanker Paul Henderson ( left ) take on the Ireland defence , while John Kirwan — one of the few World Cup players to prosper under Mains ' regime — looks to support . |
| 10 | As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation , may it long continue . |
| 11 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 12 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 13 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 14 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 15 | ‘ So you can tap her up for a few quid petrol money , eh ? |
| 16 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 17 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 18 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 19 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 20 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 21 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 22 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 23 | It 's worth a few days observation . ’ |
| 24 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 25 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 26 | The men followed them and within a few moments lord Hulton and I were standing there just as before watching the tiny figures on the skyline , listening to the distant " Haow , haow ! " |
| 27 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 28 | At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer . |
| 29 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 30 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |