Example sentences of "[pron] was a few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |
| 2 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 3 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 4 | He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister . |
| 5 | Bridgit Walker 's son Benjamin was vaccinated against polio ten years ago when he was a few months old . |