Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [pos pn] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
2 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
3 | ‘ For a few minutes our hearts were in our mouths . |
4 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
5 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
6 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
7 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
8 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
9 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |