Example sentences of "was a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant was employed by a company from 1959 to 1987 until she was dismissed by reason of redundancy when she was a few months over 60 . |
| 2 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 3 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 4 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 5 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 6 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 7 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 8 | Peter was a few years older and shared David 's passion for gambling and the good things in life . |
| 9 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
| 10 | Davout 's tent was a few paces distant , lit by an enormous watchfire and guarded by a pair of sentries . |
| 11 | On one occasion when the poor chap was a few minutes late , it was , ‘ He 's only ever on time when he wants to take me to church . ’ |
| 12 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 13 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 14 | ( This was a few years before little actors such as Al Pacino , Richard Dreyfuss or Dudley Moore became big . ) |
| 15 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 16 | The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister . |
| 17 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I was a few pence in the red to a bank that makes millions of pounds in profit every year . |
| 19 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 21 | ‘ The quote was a few hundred under the other offers we had , that 's why we accepted it . |
| 22 | Andrew Jean , her lieutenant for the past two years , was a few yards away , skin in shreds , orange beehive hairdo picked to pieces . |
| 23 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
| 24 | All punk was was a few inky columns in the music press at first . |
| 25 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 26 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |
| 27 | He was hanging upside down , and he was so soaked in blood that it was a few more seconds before I discovered the severed artery was somewhere in his left leg . |
| 28 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 29 | The only time he 's actually been in London was a few years ago , when he accompanied me on a poll tax demonstration . |
| 30 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |