Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand .
2 In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there .
3 The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’
4 A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month .
5 One afternoon at the beginning of July , when the pub was closed for a few hours , she suggested they might take little Lil out for an airing .
6 Eventually , as the lunchtime crowds subsided officewards and the pub was left to a few loud tourists , they found a quiet corner and sat down with their drinks .
7 Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family .
8 This alleyway was shut for a few months and we Hello .
9 The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence .
10 When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts .
11 In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million .
12 Obviously Duncan was calling in a few debts .
13 ‘ The shot that killed Garland was fired at a few minutes past ten .
14 A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in .
15 A theory was evolved by a few influential educationalists that if a child is given a basic training in Laban skills then he will have the essential grounding for any future specialisation he may care to follow in gymnastics , dance or drama .
16 And , indeed , when Indian ink was daubed on a few minnows , which were then put among a school , the painted minnows were disproportionately taken by predators .
17 However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them .
18 But today , the flooding was limited to a few rural spots where roads were closed and even the main railway line between Swindon and Bristol was under water .
19 The pale , polished maplewood floor was strewn with a few vibrant kelim rugs .
20 A diary based development and reporting approach was used in a few cases where close contact with the project team was feasible .
21 The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings .
22 In July 1980 , AMES staged its first public demonstration , when the El Calvario church was occupied for a few hours to demand a reduction in the price of basic food stuffs .
23 Perfusion was excellent and peristalsis was observed within a few minutes .
24 Fortunately I had bought the machine through a Mail Order catalogue , so the cost was spread over a few months .
25 If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides .
26 When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away .
27 Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) .
28 The decay of the transient absorption was monitored over a few hundred microseconds , following a 30 ns photolysis flash [ 25 ] .
29 Some progress was made upon a few , particularly the reduction of major epidemics of malaria , cholera , smallpox and yellow-fever .
30 The lion 's share of all foreign exchange dealing was restricted to a few New York banks , who refused to deal with many smaller banks and with most French and Italian ones .
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