Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] with [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain . |
| 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 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 4 | But amazingly , 17-stone Alan escaped with a few small cuts and bruises — and a little lost dignity . |
| 5 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
| 6 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 7 | SURVIVOR : Patrese escaped with a few bruises |
| 8 | The match finished with a few variations on ‘ Boring Boring Ipswich ’ and ‘ I ca n't read and I ca n't write but I can drive a tractor/taxi ’ . |
| 9 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |
| 10 | So , Meldrews syndrome was well and truly evident , with various profanities splattered with a few ‘ … believe it 's . |
| 11 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 12 | Decorate with grated orange rind and serve warm with yogurt sprinkled with a few poppy seeds . |
| 13 | People going with a few items from their attic . |
| 14 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 15 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 16 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 17 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 18 | The questionnaire for the survey began with a few brief factual questions about personal details , and a second , more important part of the schedule contained batteries of questions aimed at measuring an individual 's standing on the scales mentioned earlier . |
| 19 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
| 20 | All too often a patio is merely an area of plain paving slabs furnished with a few metal-framed sun loungers , which are functional but hardly attractive . |
| 21 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |