Example sentences of "[adv] be a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Below are a few tips from all of us at RUNNING Magazine to help you as the hours count down .
2 It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience .
3 Milling around outside were a few Cinderellas in ballgowns anxiously adjusting their wigs and checking their patches .
4 Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats .
5 There 'll still be a few showers around this evening , but they 'll die out later .
6 There may still be a few people in Islay who will remember , no doubt with appreciation , the Coats libraries , a source of firstly recreation and secondly instruction , when books were scarce in the island except in the houses of the proprietors , and to a lesser degree , the doctor , the ministers and the schoolmasters , long before popular newspapers , radio and television were easily available ,
7 Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting .
8 ‘ My idea of a good night out is a few pints with the lads down the pub . ’
9 Here are a few hints for speech-making of any kind .
10 I do n't know if any of the other Sunday rags picked this up but here are a few snippets from an article in the ‘ Yorkshire on Sunday ’ , entitled ‘ Batty blasts Leeds ’ ( 26.12.93 )
11 Here are a few guidelines to choosing trimmings successfully :
12 Here are a few bars of an imaginary harp part , to make the method of notation clear :
13 Just in case anyone believes the propaganda that the Ciskei is a ‘ homeland ’ and its puppet dictator Brigadier Oupa Gqoza are ‘ independent ’ of white racist South Africa , here are a few facts about the Ciskei army .
14 Here are a few names to be going on with … fancy any of these …
15 Here are a few names to be going on with … fancy any of these …
16 Here are a few myths about exercise you might have believed in :
17 Here are a few items for a checklist .
18 Here are a few indications of the different laws worldwide where a stolen work is put up for sale .
19 Here are a few examples from the programme for the next two years :
20 Here are a few examples from published technical papers .
21 There may even be a few glimpses of the sun with the temperature up to 8 Celsius , 46 Fahrenheit and with very little wind .
22 It turned out there were a few acres of good hunting land just to the south of the barn .
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