Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 2 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 3 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 4 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 5 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 6 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 7 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 8 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 9 | The edition of his book I quote from here was published a hundred years ago in 1891 . |
| 10 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |