Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 3 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 4 | I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions . |
| 5 | He returned a few moments later with the dish , and the little hedgehog could hardly believe her eyes : the gigantic dish was overflowing with dog food . |
| 6 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 7 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 8 | The demonstrators stopped their march , a few metres away from a police line deployed in the temple 's front square . |
| 9 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 10 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 11 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 12 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 13 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 14 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 16 | THERE looked a slim possibility yesterday that Owners Abroad might escape the clutches of rival travel group Airtours , just a few hours ahead of the close of the £290 million bid battle at 1pm today . |
| 17 | ‘ With Pharos , they will be just a few keystrokes away from the information they need to appreciate the detailed impact of community legislation on their businesses . ’ |
| 18 | I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture . |
| 19 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 20 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 21 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 22 | A few kilometres inland in the foothills of the Ronda mountains , nestling below the spectacular white village of Gaucin you will find — FINCA LAS LIMAS . |
| 23 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 24 | The story goes that he managed a round on the morning of the wedding and even , it is said , a few strokes later in the day . |
| 25 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 26 | A few decades ago at the US Department of Agriculture Experimental Station in Beltsville , Maryland , only female clucks were hatched from synthetically fertilised turkey eggs . |
| 27 | Enterprise Computer Holdings , for instance , in its p&l account to 31 March 1992 , includes ‘ purchased goodwill previously written off against reserves ’ , cancelled out a few lines later by an equal and opposite amount under ‘ reinstatement of goodwill written off above ’ . |
| 28 | It appears a few lines away from the plagiarised title of the book . |
| 29 | The announcements made by the Minister for Overseas Development a few minutes ago about the food situation were welcome , but people in Africa are starving and the terms of trade that they receive in their dealings with the developed countries , the problem of their huge indebtedness to the developed countries and the world order over which we now preside are such that hundreds of millions of people live on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 30 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |