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

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1 It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts .
2 The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them .
3 Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good .
4 Jus ’ fink of it , mate , me an' you givin' the lads a few lessons an' organisin' a few tournaments .
5 I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’
6 A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye .
7 There was a rumour doing the rounds a few weeks ago that one of the big supermarket chains was on the point of phasing out its organic food lines .
8 The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature .
9 The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up .
10 That Jesus 's entry into Jerusalem was fraught with political implications becomes evident in the Gospels a few days later .
11 The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border .
12 Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago .
13 It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases .
14 Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season .
15 Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up .
16 ‘ Savage wolves ’ was how Franjieh would describe the Palestinians a few weeks later .
17 If you change the colours every few rows on the first part of the ‘ turn ’ and reverse the colours on the second part , you get a circular change of colour which is quite marvellous — worth the effort of sewing in the ends !
18 One of the problems a few people said clear the ditches , well that 's not true we , there is a , there is a , the law is erm very er diverse on this subject , it 's er in certain cases , it 's landowners , the farmers erm and that those have been neglected , we 're paying the cost of really complacency .
19 He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on .
20 As we enter the trees a few shots ring out .
21 Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it .
22 But Gooch 's hold on the captaincy deliberately loosened by the selectors a few weeks ago has never looked less secure .
23 But if you saw their scorching live performance of Leave Them All Behind on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago then there was little else here to be surprised at .
24 Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get
25 They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later .
26 Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates .
27 But at the trial at the assizes a few months later , the name and address of the girl were both disclosed .
28 Check the clothes every few months , or moths and mould may flourish unhindered .
29 Stephen strode ahead with the porter towards the car park , the others a few feet behind .
30 ‘ I 've seen his name in the papers a few times , ’ murmured the superintendent , whose forehead creased with puzzlement .
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