Example sentences of "be a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 32 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 33 | I played really well too , and my score could have been a few lower . |
| 34 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |
| 35 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 36 | THERE HAVE been a few tactical errors made in the winter lists of new rugby books . |
| 37 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 38 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 39 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 40 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 41 | There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships . |
| 42 | There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season , of course . |
| 43 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | She reported that her supper had been a few broad beans swimming in oil , that the bread was stale and that she had been put under a woman who did n't know starch from steam . |
| 46 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 47 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 48 | up till the age of , about sixteen , after my birthday , the baby would have been a few weeks old , I thought well , if you 're under sixteen , do n't think about the Pill , they 're not going to give it to you . |
| 49 | Reminiscing from the autumn of his mid-twenties , he told Louise Colet that ‘ the greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts , reading , certain sunsets by the sea at Trouville , and conversations of five or six hours on the trot with a friend [ Alfred k Poittevin ] who is now married and lost to me . ’ |
| 50 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 51 | Although there have been a few gains , these have been outweighed by the losses . |
| 52 | But there 's been a few hairy things , stabbings and it was getting a wee bit dodgy so she 's given that up . |
| 53 | Recently both monthly and weekly paid staff have switched to Videpay ( the new payroll system ) and like all new systems there have been a few teething problems . |
| 54 | Well , when you have a look in the autoexec you 'll probably find that there 's been a few |
| 55 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 56 | Even in the early 1960s there had only been a few brave individuals . |
| 57 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 58 | There 's been a few small alterations . |
| 59 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 60 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |