Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |
| 2 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 3 | Erm I think you know there how to pick up quite a few |
| 4 | To pick out just a few examples : grandparents treat their grandchildren in the same way whether they live in Aberdeen or London ; middle-class people use money to support their close relatives in similar ways whether they live in Swansea , Sheffield or London ; people use their kin network to help them find employment whether they live in Glasgow , Basildon or Corby . |
| 5 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 6 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |