Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people heading for the square were mostly men although there were a few women , dressed in black . |
| 2 | Indeed he himself added a footnote to the paragraph quoted above : ‘ I was informed , however , that there were a few cockatoos at one spot on the west of Bali , showing that the intermingling of the productions of these islands is now going on … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers . |
| 5 | Despite the ‘ Britain 's ugliest group ’ tag that 's hung around their neck since the start , the Inspirals are a better band to look at than they were a few years back . |
| 6 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 7 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 8 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 9 | A gimcrack modern desk table ( ‘ Good enough for him ’ ) had been placed there , and there were a few shelves , stocked with the works of Walter Machin , cheap editions of Lawrence , Walter Greenwood , Orwell , Sillitoe and others , and copies of periodicals which had contributed to the revival of interest in Machin 's books . |
| 10 | Around its base , palm-trees were growing and there were a few houses built of clay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The problem is if there were a few kids out there who believed everything that Paul says and we did a really heavy religious or political song and some kid was influenced by it … it would be dangerous , ’ argues Ashley . |
| 13 | Many of them Dorcas recognized as Stationeri , but there were a few others from some of the great departmental families . |
| 14 | Mostly they were bottles , but there were a few bags containing knobbly things a bit smaller than Masklin 's fist . |
| 15 | But there were a few tears at the time were n't there ? |
| 16 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 17 | But there were a few hurdles to jump first . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 20 | My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old . |