Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 2 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 3 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 4 | Far removed from a few simple flowers and greenery , this is an elaborate screen covered with flower petals stuck into clay to form a picture . |
| 5 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |