Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 2 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 3 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 4 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
| 5 | But one thing I do find sadly lacking is a middle-of-the-range clothes shop . |
| 6 | What our boys badly need is a few wins . |
| 7 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |