Example sentences of "its [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 2 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 3 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 4 | The catering department at the Dome Leisure Centre , Doncaster , refitted its kitchens a few years ago and , with its suppliers ' advice , chose equipment which anticipated the five degree temperature requirements . |
| 5 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 6 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 7 | According to Jimmy Johnstone 's very forthright biography , the ‘ horseplay ’ reached its peak a few yards from the Queen 's Hotel when the Leeds and Scotland goalkeeper David Harvey climbed on top of a beach hut and began throwing stones at his team mates . |
| 8 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 9 | It approaches Rome , lumbering up the Appian Way , doubling its size every few minutes . |
| 10 | Impressive as Charfield Mill undoubtedly is , it pales in comparison with its neighbour a few miles away , New Mills at Kingswood , near Wotton-Under-Edge . |
| 11 | Larsen saw that the skylight through which they had entered was situated at its midpoint , its twin a few feet away on the opposite slope of the roof . |
| 12 | Brazil expects to export over 1m tonnes , twice its estimate a few months ago . |