Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] with [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The images on our television screens , emerging from fly-on-the-wall documentaries and dramatised accounts have conveyed a picture of gloom and despair ; of sad lives filled with harrowing moments of violence ; these are places of isolation and fear staffed with a few uncaring , and usually male , nurses . |
| 2 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
| 3 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 4 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 5 | Decorate with grated orange rind and serve warm with yogurt sprinkled with a few poppy seeds . |
| 6 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 7 | The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier . |
| 8 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |