Example sentences of "few [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My few possessions mocked me . |
| 2 | A few calls answered him . |
| 3 | Yet the thought of being cooped up indoors for another few hours made her feel almost suicidal . |
| 4 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 5 | Only a few steps brought him to within feet of her . |
| 6 | The emphasis on the last few words gave his game away . |
| 7 | Only over the last few months had she noticed the subtle swing of attention away from her towards medical students , or the younger female doctors . |
| 8 | The first few months horrified her . |
| 9 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 10 | There was quite a few schools used it . |
| 11 | A few cars honked their way through the crowds and cyclists rang their bells . |
| 12 | Few communities adopted it in toto , but it provided a useful source of material , even if those responsible for it fell into the common trap of producing texts which were not necessarily Appropriate for musical setting . |
| 13 | And a few companies found their senior women were suspicious rather than supportive . |
| 14 | Perhaps few manors detailed their work as much as Tangmere ; many were probably worked from oral instructions , but the complexity of daily organisation in a society often unpredictable and expanding becomes clear . |
| 15 | In 1830 Artis returned to Castor and for the next few years divided his time between his business interests in Doncaster and small-scale excavations at Castor . |
| 16 | The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other . |
| 17 | The industry did not shriek too loudly : the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy . |
| 18 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 19 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 20 | You did the job in hand the best you could and few things irritated her more than people wasting energy bemoaning the starving millions . |
| 21 | A few things nettled her : she did not relish being a clearing house for family complaints , for instance , and was carefully reticent on such occasions . |
| 22 | Only a few families supported him , the rest were either wavering or hostile . |
| 23 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 24 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 25 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 26 | The chronicles record the large number of French who , at the day 's end , lay dead on the field , while , by contrast , very few Englishmen lost their lives . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ A few people had their eyes opened . |
| 28 | At the time that Salam and Weinberg proposed their theory , few people believed them , and particle accelerators were not powerful enough to reach the energies of 100 GeV required to produce real W , w , or Q particles . |
| 29 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 30 | Few people realised it , but beneath Simon 's confident and charming exterior lurked a mass of insecurities . |