Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] a few [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then there were a few things that reinforced that feeling . |
| 2 | And there were a few things that you mentioned as you were going through that a you know I just really want to make a few comments on really . |
| 3 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 4 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 5 | There were a few men and women dressed in black , who waited as silent witnesses to the obscenity of capital punishment . |
| 6 | In many ways the yacht suited him well enough , but there were a few details that niggled — like the way a lump of green water lifting onto the weather side deck and running aft almost invariably hit the rail at the corner of the transom and slopped over the coaming to soak his trousers . |
| 7 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 8 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 9 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 10 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her . |
| 13 | I saw the rolled-up rug under the workbench and it was a few seconds before I realized that she was n't inside it any more . |