Example sentences of "with [art] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 32 | Begin this pan with a few seconds of static shot ( remembering to allow for the backspace time ) and continue the shot for a few more seconds when you reach the end of the pan . |
| 33 | Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them . |
| 34 | RCO had tried to brighten up their corner of the third floor with a few gallons of inexpensive paint . |
| 35 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 36 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |
| 37 | This picture has been placed inside a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) square aperture , and I used some small silverweed leaves , with a few sprays of forget-me-not , some geums , two pink larkspurs , plus several red and white hawthorn blossoms . |
| 38 | Though focused on the bouncing bow of the violin , with a few grains of salt , these types can be transferred to other media as well . |
| 39 | In public discussion , however , the idea that genes account for most variation among IQs seems not only controversial but also associated with a few men of allegedly questionable character . |
| 40 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 41 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
| 42 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 43 | Highgate Cemetery displays crossed bats with a broken wicket , as well as a stone piano with a few bars of one of Puccini 's operas . |
| 44 | Bernice dumped the remaining food on the floor with a few sweeps of her hand and kicked it under the rubber skirts of the machine . |
| 45 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 46 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 47 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 48 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 49 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 50 | To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it . |
| 51 | Season with a few drops of lemon juice and a sprinkling of cayenne pepper . |
| 52 | Place one of these on the slide and cover with a few drops of water . |
| 53 | If you would like to see the adult butterfly feeding , put some leafy shoots in the cage , with a few drops of honey on the leaves . |
| 54 | Hard boil your eggs with a few drops of pink dye or coffee grains to make them skin-coloured . |
| 55 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 56 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 57 | Gastric haemorrhagic damage was induced by oral administration of indomethacin ( Sigma Chemical Co , St Louis , MO ) at a dose of 20 mg/kg , suspended in 0.5% carboxymethylcellulose solution with a few drops of tween 80 in a volume of 0.5 ml/100 g body weight . |
| 58 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |
| 59 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 60 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |