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

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31 Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims .
32 So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time .
33 There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month .
34 A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens .
35 Yes , I was possessed , but happy to be so , if it allowed me to be with him , to feel him near me for a few hours every day .
36 It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend .
37 Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms .
38 Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide .
39 To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week .
40 If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’
41 Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week .
42 Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? )
43 Perhaps it will be both rather more demanding and more flexible than some , asking for a few hours a year but with more emphasis on personal planning .
44 Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock .
45 Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day .
46 With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week .
47 AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day .
48 The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground .
49 I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much .
50 Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance .
51 After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder .
52 Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep .
53 But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated .
54 Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week .
55 Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ?
56 A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … .
57 For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds .
58 But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate .
59 After a few hours the butterflies can be released .
60 The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began !
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