Example sentences of "a few [noun] remained " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Duke of Richmond and a few others remained calm , seeing the essentially limited nature of the outbreaks , some landowners , like Sir Godfrey Webster , temporarily returned from exile , thoroughly enjoyed themselves galloping around the country at night with troops of dragoons or coastguards to hunt down troublemakers . |
| 2 | But a few patients remained healthier a year later . |
| 3 | A few people remained to take up lives in the new Wadi Halfa , a bleak tenuous place which sprang up where the railway line from Khartoum comes to an apparently arbitrary end against a low wall of sleepers . |
| 4 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 5 | Although a few analysts remained bullish about the market , most had serious reservations . |
| 6 | A few hospitals remained open throughout the fighting . |