Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , a few chairs on the market that improve posture while sitting . |
| 2 | At this point , it might be appropriate to spend a few moments on a specifically Scottish aspect of the Bill . |
| 3 | ‘ So happy to gleet my good fliends here tonight ’ , he began , and spoke for a few moments on the glories of old Cathay . |
| 4 | As I said , Sunderland played well … and had a few chances on the break — only to be expected . |
| 5 | Sandison got up , put a few coins on the café table and set off to meet Maidstone . |
| 6 | Bicker sighed , and flipped a few coins on the bar . |
| 7 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 8 | Leave a few marrows on the plants to ripen fully , raising them up through the foliage into the sun by resting on bricks . |
| 9 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 10 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 11 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 12 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
| 13 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 14 | Occasionally , when she came over from England with Neil , they 'd go out and take a few pigeons on a Sunday morning , but his heart was n't in it . |
| 15 | And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’ |
| 16 | The glory of victory , the bitterness of defeat , the sunny nature of everyone as they cross the bridge into the magic world for a few hours on a frosty January day . |
| 17 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 18 | A new age in chemistry , where the problem of measuring some molecular property could be resolved by pushing a few keys on a computer , has not materialised — the reason is that ab initio calculation for any but the simplest of systems remain beyond the reach of the most advanced computers . |
| 19 | He led me to his booth and typed a few keys on the control panel . |
| 20 | Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals . |
| 21 | There were shelves full of books and cassettes , a few water-colours on the walls , a model sailing-ship in a big glass bottle on a side-table . |
| 22 | Work a few centimetres/inches on a fairly wide sample of stitches , ending with carriage at the right ready for the next row . |
| 23 | They saw a warm , comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table . |
| 24 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 25 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 26 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 27 | There are , however , a few blots on the landscape such as the Centro Comercial do Infante Olimpa on Avenida do Infante and the Centro Comercial do Infante building which towers on one side of the roundabout at the end of Avenida Arriaga . |
| 28 | He scribbled a few lines on a scrap sheet to get the hang of Sampson 's cramped style , and then he started to fill in the form . |
| 29 | He fumbled in his jacket pocket , took out a notebook and wrote a few lines on a page which he tore out and gave to Rain . |
| 30 | But by their very nature they are only a few lines on a piece of paper at the moment . |