Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before continuing with our main theme there are a few points that may need clarifying . |
| 2 | Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed , trapping them . |
| 3 | Moreover , on the far side of the Moon there are a few basins that , if filled , would resemble mare . |
| 4 | At the other end of the scale there were a few offices which were formally and legally hereditary . |
| 5 | By the mid Triassic there were a few groups of large herbivore reptiles , called rhynchosaurs , who were distant relatives of the lizards . |
| 6 | But he told the judge : ‘ Her object has always been to secure the payment not just for herself but the little boy George who is a few months old . |
| 7 | On the other hand there are a few techniques , frequently used in constructing proofs , to which it is perhaps useful to draw attention as they have been known to give students the occasional difficulty . |
| 8 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 9 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 10 | That evening at dinner in the hotel they were a few tables away , just out of earshot but plainly visible . |
| 11 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 12 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 13 | ‘ Not for a measly fifty , ’ William laughs , as he and Andy pull together and draw together , tottering on the seat while Andy throws the emptied bottle to someone in the crowd and is handed another full magnum by his partner in The Gadget Shop , a fellow ex-ad-man who 's a few years older than Andy . |
| 14 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |