Example sentences of "[num ord] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the later years of the seventeenth century and the opening decades of the eighteenth a few provincial towns began to grow rapidly . |
| 2 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 3 | At first a few individuals left off talking , then this engendered a positive feedback , more people heard the gathering soundlessness and responded to it so that whole tiers shut up . |
| 4 | First a few exploratory notes , presumably on the Steinway Grand that Morse had earlier admired in the Lancaster Room ; then the whole melody as the pianist hired for the afternoon tea-room session fingered his way through the nostalgic chords of ‘ Love 's Old Sweet Song ’ . |
| 5 | Then from the French trenches were to be seen streaming back to our lines , first a few prisoners here and there , then more and more , and at last whole columns of them ; I breathed freely once more ! |