Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [subord] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 In fact Carter 's style as president was probably closest to that of Woodrow Wilson who , as it happens , died a few months before Carter was born in 1924 .
2 The recession and a consequent loss of business is forcing the closure of Fosters menswear shop in Baxtergate , Whitby , only a few months after plans were passed for extensive modernisation work to be carried out .
3 These remarks were made by a Unit General Manager reflecting on his experience a few months after WFP was published .
4 Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born .
5 The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office .
6 But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev .
7 Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 .
8 His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born .
9 We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins .
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