Example sentences of "[adv] a large family " in BNC.
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| 1 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 2 | I.C.B. was interested in our neighbours — particularly a large family that lived upstairs at the time . |
| 3 | With high mortality rates even a large family size only just replaces the parents . |
| 4 | There are only six surviving species , the other two originating from South America and Australia , of quite a large family and they form the link between the fish and the early reptiles . |
| 5 | I come from quite a large family but most of my family live in the same area . |
| 6 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 7 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |