Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 2 | All she needs is a few weeks of expert tuition . ’ |
| 3 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 4 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 5 | With a sensitive magnetometer all that is needed is a few turns of enamelled wire reasonably carefully wound onto a piece of plastic drainpipe . |
| 6 | By the time Folly opened her eyes , Luke 's lips were on hers , and all she could see was a few inches of gold-shadowed cheek and an ear . |
| 7 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 8 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 9 | All I glimpsed were a few strands of grey hair and a white , neatly barbered beard . ’ |
| 10 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 11 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 12 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 13 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 14 | The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister . |
| 15 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |
| 16 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 17 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 18 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 19 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 20 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
| 21 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 22 | But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better . |