Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Carrick has long stopped hoping , calculating that age and immobility caused by a few excess pounds count against him . |
| 4 | These sources include articles and official statements published in ACCOUNTANCY , course and conference notes from the few delegates that still attend external training , and letters and reports already produced within the firm as part of normal client service work . |
| 5 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 6 | Morse and Max stood for a few moments silently just outside the front door of the Kemp residence . |
| 7 | The monastery was borne along on a buoyant prosperity which , while it may have contributed to the dissatisfactions and distractions felt by the few , drew most of its members together in a sense of their importance and independence , and hastened the disappearance of earlier divisions . |