Sentence examples for withdraw a few from inspiring English sources

"We may hear of a plan to withdraw a few thousand American troops," MoveOn.org said.

The warning, made by President Benigno S. Aquino III of the Philippines, came as the United Nations was still scrambling for replacements to fill a void in the Golan peacekeeping force left by Austria, which ordered its contingent to withdraw a few weeks ago because of the instability caused by the war in Syria.

What this means is that if a private person or a nonbank firm were to attempt withdraw a few billion dollars in cash, they would almost surely incur heavy monitoring by the authorities -- both criminal and tax.

The rod and the crucible are then rotated in opposite directions while the rod is slowly withdrawn a few millimetres per second.

In his prison cell, Justo was now sleeping on a thin blanket – his mattress was withdrawn a few months after he arrived, as was his exercise hour.

Lleyton Hewitt reached the second round of the Stockholm Open when the three-time champion Thomas Enqvist withdrew a few hours before yesterday's match with a shoulder injury.

Its very survival seemed unlikely, in the face of "confrontation" from its giant neighbour, Indonesia, and dependence on the presence of British military bases, which, in fact, were withdrawn a few years later.

That was one of the chief reasons for the "disengagement" from Gaza: by withdrawing a few thousand settlers, 1.4 million Gazans were instantly wiped from the demographic score sheet.

[A third partner, the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, withdrew a few hours after the group won a $7.7 billion license, Bloomberg News reported from Hong Kong early Friday, quoting Canning Fok, Hutchison's group managing director.] "For consumers, the result promises the most intense competition," said Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, head of Germany's telecommunications regulatory agency.

It's the difference between having your bank apologize for losing your money because someone robbed it, and it telling you that the teller accidentally withdrew a few thousand dollars from your bank account and handed it to someone else.

There was a surprise winner in the men's 400m hurdles, a race which started without reigning world champion Dai Greene after the Welshman withdrew a few hours before the contest with an Achilles problem.