Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
2 | A simple fade-to-black ( a common technique used in the Sixties ) gives the artists a few vital seconds to reposition themselves before the fade-up suggests action happening the following morning . |
3 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
4 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
5 | ‘ He managed to give the authorities a few sketchy details before he died . |
6 | I 've heard of farmers slipping the lads a few marks to drive through an old fence so they can get a new one free . ’ |
7 | Jus ’ fink of it , mate , me an' you givin' the lads a few lessons an' organisin' a few tournaments . |
8 | A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye . |
9 | There was a rumour doing the rounds a few weeks ago that one of the big supermarket chains was on the point of phasing out its organic food lines . |
10 | The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature . |
11 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
12 | That Jesus 's entry into Jerusalem was fraught with political implications becomes evident in the Gospels a few days later . |
13 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
14 | Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago . |
15 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
16 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
17 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
18 | ‘ Savage wolves ’ was how Franjieh would describe the Palestinians a few weeks later . |
19 | If you change the colours every few rows on the first part of the ‘ turn ’ and reverse the colours on the second part , you get a circular change of colour which is quite marvellous — worth the effort of sewing in the ends ! |
20 | One of the problems a few people said clear the ditches , well that 's not true we , there is a , there is a , the law is erm very er diverse on this subject , it 's er in certain cases , it 's landowners , the farmers erm and that those have been neglected , we 're paying the cost of really complacency . |
21 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
22 | As we enter the trees a few shots ring out . |
23 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
24 | But Gooch 's hold on the captaincy deliberately loosened by the selectors a few weeks ago has never looked less secure . |
25 | She was then introduced to the other chaps from work she did n't know already , and to the girls a few of them were with . |
26 | But if you saw their scorching live performance of Leave Them All Behind on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago then there was little else here to be surprised at . |
27 | Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get |
28 | Still , as long as the occupants are happy huddling in a spartan hut with the fantasy that they are men of the wilds , while people read the Daily Record under a golf umbrella and pass round the digestives a few thousand feet above them on the Ben then who can criticise ? |
29 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
30 | Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates . |