Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 3 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 4 | The architect most commonly associated with this work was George Baines who designed quite a few churches for Baptists . |
| 5 | The stories are legion of people who retired abroad in the expectation of being able to afford a higher standard of living and who returned home a few years later , thoroughly disillusioned . |
| 6 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |