Sentence examples for a few troops from inspiring English sources

Several hundred were injured, including a few troops from KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force.

It was discovered that their drive on Yunnanfu had been only a diversion carried out by a few troops.

There seemed to be no artillery positions protecting either, and only a few troops guarding the railroad's bridges.

Even five days after the catastrophe, there were few signs of authority in many stricken areas except for a few troops.

Britain, which has had a few troops making war on the ground, stands ready, it says, to send thousands for this no less necessary purpose.

Sometimes he would meet with a few troops in a small venue; more often he'd attend a gathering of thousands in an airport hangar.

We came in 2006 with a few thousand troops there are now 30,000 troops in Helmand".

He calls it "a hope posing as a plan" that committed too few troops to accomplish the tasks they had been given: a classic ends/means mismatch.

I still think I can win, because I prepped my base for the Mother of All Battles, and you prepared yours for Mother Goose -- a short war, with few troops, few funerals and no sacrifices for average Americans.

It was a mistake to keep too few troops on the ground to ensure order after the fall of Baghdad.

A few more troops, or a few more months, will not restore it.