Example sentences of "lost a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a new disease attacked the US maize crop in 1970 , the kissing cousins in the fields had no genetic defence : farmers overall lost a billion dollars and some unlucky ones lost their farms as well . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 3 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 4 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 5 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 6 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |