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

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1 If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years .
2 We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations .
3 The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures .
4 Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start .
5 Around this time , as it was evident that the trams in London would have to be kept going for a few more years , visible external truss rods and other strengthening devices began to appear on many of the cars .
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