Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 2 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 3 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 4 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 5 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 6 | This type of decoration , consisting of individually stitched beads , was found only among a few of the Plateau tribes . |
| 7 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |
| 8 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 9 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 10 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 11 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 12 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |