Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | Captain McArthur said : ‘ I was here a few evenings ago , when the band played the anthem . |
| 3 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 4 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 5 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 6 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 8 | Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long . |
| 9 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 10 | But the spit at Pellestrina , which is only a few feet high , is vulnerable to being breached , the experts believe a 12km long perched beach could provide the answer . |
| 11 | There is very easy access to the centre of Brno , by tram ( which is only a few minutes walk away ) . |
| 12 | My first efforts to find Roztoky , which is only a few miles outside Prague , were a horror story of wrong turnings , lengthy detours and rush-hour traffic . |
| 13 | Going on to the article itself which was probably a few years old , there was a part about jaundice and its treatment . |
| 14 | you can , wonderful , so every time the telephone went , which was quite a few times , we stop it and then we , you know , we fancied supper in the middle and oh it was nice |
| 15 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 16 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 17 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 18 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 19 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 20 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |
| 21 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 22 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 23 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 24 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 25 | Gianni and Ursula leapt on just as the doors were closing , but Monique , who was now a few yards behind them and whose movements were hampered anyway by her arthritis , was left standing there as the train moved out . |
| 26 | Her mother Fran said : ‘ I can not believe we are just a few hours from going home . |
| 27 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 28 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 29 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 30 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |