Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo .
2 Her eyes were held for a few moments in the lazy gaze across the desk , then with a conscious effort she blinked herself free , looked down at her notepad .
3 After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table .
4 Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher .
5 A few areas in the world are phylloxera-free and the vines there are sometimes ungrafted .
6 This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east .
7 The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day .
8 ‘ I have a few concerts in the Midlands , and I thought I 'd make my base somewhere close by until they 're over .
9 Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read .
10 ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’
11 He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force .
12 On Day One , the simple exercise of shooting a few scenes in the garden was partly to familiarise you with the idea of editing in camera .
13 particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air .
14 Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future .
15 Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future .
16 Quickly I seized needle and thread and began to insert a few sutures in the vulva .
17 But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long .
18 Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular .
19 There is a further division when one includes Northern Ireland , where the community is divided along mutually exclusive lines ( see Chapter 9 ) : a few families in the province still speak the Irish form of Gaelic .
20 There were the usual minor excitements : a murder in the churchyard , a few muggings in the back-streets and alleys , and the election of a new Mayor with all the bribery and corruption which accompanied such an event .
21 The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days .
22 Most ‘ educationists ’ subscribed to the same principle , although a few teachers in the National Association of Labour Teachers and the TUC had begun to look beyond ‘ equality of opportunity ’ to equality of provision .
23 He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties .
24 There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) .
25 ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says .
26 ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool .
27 The first weekend I spend a few hours in a boat making a note of the various depths , the location of weedbeds , and any shelves or basins which could prove attractive to fish .
28 To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house .
29 Snow settled for a few hours in the Dundee area , causing traffic problems .
30 The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister .
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