Sentence examples for maintained a few from inspiring English sources

He maintained a few close personal friendships and remained a lifelong bachelor.

But the FSA fell to pieces, corrupted, and the "moderates" defected all over again, this time to the Islamist Nusrah Front or to Isis, selling their American-supplied weapons to the highest bidder or merely retiring quietly – and wisely – to the countryside where they maintained a few scattered checkpoints.

The National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP) maintained a few scattered posts in the fringe of forest on the eastern edge of Laguna del Tigre.

In addition, I met with many 'language partners' in Florence, and maintained a few relationships with Florentines who want to improve their English; Franca and I, for example, met weekly for lunch and my friend Karen is now continuing those great lunches with Franca, spending 1/2 hour talking in Italian and then the next 1/2 hour talking in English, all while having a delicious lunch.

The mammary glands of ovariectomized C57Bl6 mice displayed almost complete developmental arrest, whereas those of their CD-1 counterparts maintained a few TEB structures.

Without proper disinfection, the infectivity of viruses can be maintained a few hours in the case of enveloped viruses and up to 60 days for non-enveloped viruses [ 6].

Other elephants are more reserved and instead maintain a few strong relationships.

As helpless and pathetic as he becomes, Mr. Depardieu's Georges still maintains a few shreds of dignity.

It has not been without its challenges, but maintaining a few good systems has really helped us with the transition.

As for his paying job, Mr. Garg is a consultant for AT&T Labs, maintaining a few hundred servers for an AT&T data center in Alpharetta, Ga.

She may also have wished to maintain a few more years of control over the fortune her son would inherit upon marriage (or at twenty-five, whicameer came sooner).