Example sentences of "[pron] be just 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 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 3 | Her mother Fran said : ‘ I can not believe we are just a few hours from going home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 6 | There are just a few questions and we 'll let you go back to the Vicarage . |
| 7 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 8 | In this battle , thankfully , there are just a few bruises |
| 9 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
| 10 | Er right , now there was just a few things that er I 've got to ask . |
| 11 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
| 12 | The chick 's beaks are removed with a hot knife when they are just a few days old in order to prevent the savage pecking which often occurs in densely populated factory farming environments . |
| 13 | Innovating new products , developing existing ones and a progressive programme of improving quality and services — they 're just a few reasons why Veka , and the people who choose Veka , will never stand still . |
| 14 | He says that although they 're just a few millimetres in size , in a year they 'll be as big as their mother . |
| 15 | They were just a few suggestions on display at a Christmas food festival , and traders are proud to say that they 're all produced locally . |
| 16 | I mean it wo n't mean me redoing it or anything , it 's just a few things that I wanted |
| 17 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 18 | Although the Diplomat is along a quiet side-street , it 's just a few minutes stroll from Munich 's pedestrian shopping areas . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just a few blocks further … ’ |
| 20 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's just a few minutes early for the unveiling of the new me . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was just a few meals … ? ’ |
| 23 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
| 24 | It was just a few inches below the surface . |
| 25 | It was just a few scratches . |
| 26 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 27 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 28 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 29 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |