Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 2 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 3 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 4 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 5 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 6 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 7 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 8 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 9 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 10 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 11 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 12 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 13 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 14 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 15 | The gun had landed within a few inches of Blake . |
| 16 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 17 | Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing . |
| 18 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 19 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 20 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 21 | She had passed through a few rooms . |
| 22 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 23 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 24 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 25 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |