Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 2 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
| 3 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 4 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
| 5 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 6 | United then began to pile men forward as they had to , Simpson causing problems down the left , Phillips again in mid-field winning a lot of ball , but of course United leaving a few gaps at the back , and just before the finish , four minutes before the finish , that man Gascoigne put the game beyond United 's reach , giving Spurs a four two victory . |
| 7 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 8 | LAST WEEK I WANDERED off , rather against my better judgment , to kill a few hours at a thing called the Country Living Fair . |
| 9 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 10 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 11 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 12 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 13 | So I urge anyone with a garden to visit Sainsbury 's , keep back a few potatoes at the end of the season , before Christmas store them carefully and plant them in the spring . |
| 14 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 15 | Hotels shelter discreetly among refreshing pine trees or beside sumptuous sandy shores , and everywhere there is an opportunity to relax , to enjoy a wide variety of watersports or to play a few rounds at the 18-hole Is Molas Golf Club . |
| 16 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 17 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 18 | There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies . |
| 19 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 20 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 21 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 22 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 23 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 24 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 25 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 26 | Zounds ! — I 'd like a few minutes at the bottom of her ! |
| 27 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 28 | With our all-purpose Lloyds bankcard ( Visa/cashcard/ cheque guarantee card ) we were able to obtain up to our daily maximum limit on any one day , in US$ , within a few minutes at the bank . |
| 29 | ‘ He is fully committed for several weeks ahead , but he could spare you a few minutes at the end of his list one day . ’ |
| 30 | I heard the match on radio 5 an all , although CEEFAX said the ko was 8.00 so I missed a few minutes at the start . |