Example sentences of "were [vb pp] in a few " in BNC.

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1 Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days .
2 The elections were deemed by foreign observers to have been held without widescale irregularities , although cases were reported in a few localities .
3 Most of those applications were made in a few weeks .
4 The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages .
5 Germany 's coal reserves were huge and were concentrated in a few large fields .
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