Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 2 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 3 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 4 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 5 | There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice . |
| 6 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 7 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 10 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 11 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 12 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 13 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 14 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 15 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 17 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 18 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 19 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 20 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 21 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 22 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 23 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 24 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 25 | There have been quite a few happenings since then , but my fingers are getting tired , so I 'll save them for another article . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been here a few times . ’ |
| 27 | Not , not a lot at the moment , I do n't think , erm , the end of July erm there was eight hundred and something , but there 's been quite a few bills that have come out of it although that does n't include the two receipts that Maisie has just given me which is about a hundred and eighty , so that 's nearly another two hundred in , but we 're alright , we 're . |
| 28 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |