Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 2 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 3 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 4 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 5 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 6 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 7 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 8 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 9 | If nothing catches the eye , walk a few blocks to West 47th street , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues , to browse at the Gotham Book Mart ( ’ Wise men fish here , ’ says the sign ) , which , for 70 years has specialised in literature and arts . |
| 10 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
| 11 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 12 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 13 | She put a few questions to Dr Scott . |
| 14 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 15 | Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment : |
| 16 | " I 'll think o n't , " he said , and having drained his tankard again , pushed his chair back , tossed a few pence to Marion , and elbowed his way to the door . |
| 17 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 18 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 19 | ‘ I said a few words to Miss Mallender — Miss Heather Mallender , that is — at her sister 's funeral , last year . |
| 20 | What , what do you think , do you think you ought to say a few words to Jack ? |
| 21 | She seized her jacket and bag , said a few words to Myra and practically ran the short distance to her flat , visions of Dana lying unconscious from a fall filling her mind . |
| 22 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |
| 23 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
| 24 | He can devote a few paragraphs to Brecht but pages to the crippled young would-be philosopher who spends his life in a barrow flicking through Spinoza and Kant with his tongue . |
| 25 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ All Gemma had to do was walk up a few stairs to Neha 's . |
| 27 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 28 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 29 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 30 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |