Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ’ . |
6 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
7 | Decorate with grated orange rind and serve warm with yogurt sprinkled with a few poppy seeds . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
13 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |