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

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1 The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket .
2 Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb .
3 In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco .
4 Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts .
5 She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband .
6 No , each hitch was only temporary — and the few minutes of unplanned stillness was welcomed by photographers .
7 But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view .
8 The observed correlation of lead in the blood with IQ is slight , and the few points of IQ apparently lost through lead uptake may seem negligible .
9 The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day .
10 It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay .
11 As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor .
12 We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads .
13 So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture .
14 Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread .
15 Taking a pint of milk from the fridge , and a few slices of fresh bread , I lost no time in getting ‘ Starna ’ under way .
16 Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows .
17 If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time .
18 After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing .
19 Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt .
20 In the past the normal essay was handed in complete in final draft , and marked with a grade and a few sentences of comment from the teacher .
21 After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs .
22 The heavy , crude outlines are now no longer broken and sporadic as they were in some of his most characteristically Fauve works , and every shape is carefully and fully outlined ; only a certain emphasis on the oval forms of the foliage , and a few touches of arbitrary colour retain any flavour of Fauvism .
23 The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb .
24 The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb .
25 Michael Degnan , 30 years in Bishop Auckland , strutted the theory last weekend shared by Arthur , Squeak and a few others of the Cumberland 's Friday night faithful that the name comes from the cockfighting pit that once was out the back .
26 Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis .
27 Time was that decor in a tank consisted of a backdrop , a gravel substrate and a few bits of rock from the back garden that you hoped were inert and would n't affect water chemistry .
28 There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible .
29 And a few centilitres of good whisky . ’
30 The feet can be washed in an oblong , straight-sided plastic household bucket filled with about six inches of warm water and a few drops of mild disinfectant , while sitting on a bathroom stool ( or using the lavatory as a seat ) .
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