Example sentences of "[am/are] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , ’ it said with relish , ‘ you think you 'll forget about your precious Lucy just because you 're a few hundred miles away ? |
| 2 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 3 | So what I want you to do is to follow these little chips er dimples here , they 're on this stone there 're a few on that but not on here , so that bit it goes in that direction . |
| 4 | I think there 're , there 're a few things erm , I think you asked the question er , Peter , about having eighteen people on one base all got to work together . |
| 5 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 6 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 7 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 10 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 11 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
| 12 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 13 | While the inclination may vary from a modest rise to a mountainside , there are a few golden rules you can follow . |
| 14 | If you 're going to tackle a project like this yourself there are a few golden rules . |
| 15 | There are a few fee-paying clinics too . |
| 16 | There are a few fee-paying clinics too . |
| 17 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ There are a few drawbacks . ’ |
| 19 | What are a few bolts beside the environmental devastation caused by a large quarry ? |
| 20 | And there are a few people who wo n't be pleased whatever you do . |
| 21 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 22 | There are a few merchant facilities licensed to take dangerous organic wastes , which are nonetheless not the worst-case highly chlorinated wastes ( one of these is the Leigh plant at Killamarsh near Sheffield ) . |
| 23 | Today there are a few very old men in Lebanon who have lived to watch the monster which the general helped to create . |
| 24 | Here are a few for you to use . |
| 25 | As I write there are a few small , unexcited newspaper reports about the progress of peace talks taking place , under the aegis of ex-President Jimmy Carter , in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 26 | Never mind if there are a few who do n't want to work . |
| 27 | Many meet the strictest safety standards but there are a few exceptions . |
| 28 | Constructing terminal tackle of this nature is a time consuming occupation although there are a few that try to cut corners to maximise profits . |
| 29 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
| 30 | Before continuing with our main theme there are a few points that may need clarifying . |