Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knife lies a few feet away in a puddle . |
| 2 | Each of these Upper Triassic faunas contains a Few dinosaurs however ; but only 0–5 to 3–0 per cent of the total specimens . |
| 3 | Two heads a few inches apart . |
| 4 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 5 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 6 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 8 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 9 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 10 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 11 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 12 | NICK HASTED investigates the often perilous journey from printed page to silver screen , reveals a few stories still waiting in the wings — and dares film-makers to have a crack at some of literature 's more , erm , cerebral delights … |
| 13 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 14 | On tour : security agents and officials shadow Secretary of State Warren Christopher as he takes a few moments off from his talks in Cairo yesterday to pay a visit to the Sphinx |
| 15 | It appears a few lines away from the plagiarised title of the book . |
| 16 | Fox appears a few years later at Churches Mill . |
| 17 | When the airbrakes are opened , some lift is lost so that the glider sinks a few feet very rapidly . |
| 18 | He seized her hands in his , and mindful of her enthusiastic response to his advances a few weeks ago , took her in her arms and planted a kiss on her cheek . |
| 19 | The same charge will apply to the north and south car parks in Victoria Road , which were made short stay car parks a few years ago . |
| 20 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 22 | KEITH Hampson , the Tory MP from socialist Shildon , remains a few miles closer to his browtin 's up . |
| 23 | The Mexico–Australia , Paraguay–USA , and Paraguay–France matches a few years ago were other notorious examples . |
| 24 | When the prime minister arrives at the Palace for the weekly audience , the private secretary acts as host and spends a few minutes beforehand in conversation . |
| 25 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 26 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 27 | Renault Senior League winners Randalstown , were scheduled to meet the Dubliners along with the Munster and Connaught champions in Cork on May 22–23 but Muckross have applied for a re-scheduling to help their preparations for their European Club Championship campaign in Italy which begins a few days later . |
| 28 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 29 | Off he goes and returns a few minutes later with friend and a dirty great Roller , all pristine chrome and gleaming fenders . |