Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 Patrick awoke briefly during the night and lay awake , confused and troubled for a few moments until he realized where he was .
2 On the minus side , the economy is small , unbalanced and concentrated in a few sectors , particularly electronics , financial services , textiles , whisky and oil .
3 They concern spoken discourse in which sender and receiver interact with each other rapidly , and they tend to be short and deal with a few turns at most .
4 The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important .
5 I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence .
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