Example sentences of "with [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 2 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 3 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 4 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 5 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 6 | Mrs Castle opens her account with a few reflections on the ‘ feminine ’ touch Edward Heath had brought to the redecoration of Chequers and some bitter-sweet memories of 1969 , when she and Wilson had clashed there with trade-union leaders over the In Place of Strife proposals for union reform . |
| 7 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 8 | Then the box was packed into a suitcase with a few clothes around it . |
| 9 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 10 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 11 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 12 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 13 | How distant that sounds and , on a train , it is a full 19 hours , with a few stops in Germany on the way . |
| 14 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 15 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 16 | Beginning with a few notes on the back of an envelope , the Bill expanded rapidly . |
| 17 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 18 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 19 | I cite G.M. Musgrave , sketcher , traveller , memoirist , and vicar of Borden , Kent : author of The Parson , Pen and Pencil , or , Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris , Tours , and Rouen , in the Summer of 1847 ; with a few Memoranda on French Farming ( Richard Bentley , London , 1848 ) and of A Ramble Through Normandy , or , Scenes , Characters and Incidents in a Sketching Excursion Through Calvados ( David Bogue , London , 1855 ) . |
| 20 | Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside . |
| 21 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 22 | Colour is even more limited than before , and the palette for the succeeding years is established : some of the paintings are in earth colours , greys and blacks , with a few touches of dull green , while others are in softer grey-blues and buffs . |
| 23 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 24 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 25 | The Chorleywood Bread Process , introduced in 1961 , replaces a long ‘ proving ’ with a few minutes of intense mechanical mixing . |
| 26 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 27 | South-East Gully can be entered from a lower point , so dispensing with a few feet of scrambling above the climbs . |
| 28 | covered over with sn with a few feet of snow . |
| 29 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 30 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |