Example sentences of "[was/were] a few [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 2 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 3 | There were a few sticks of furniture and the floor was beaten earth , rather cold despite the summer . |
| 4 | There were a few complaints of poverty and the money was slow to come in from Norfolk and Yorkshire . |
| 5 | There were a few complaints of poverty , but no signs of serious opposition ; and the revenue began to flow in , reaching about £60,000 . |
| 6 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
| 7 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 8 | He resigned from his role as promotion and resource worker saying : ‘ There were a few points of disagreement , but I retain my membership of the co-op and wish Community Campus every success . ’ |
| 9 | There were a few pieces of wire among the rubbish , and he picked one up . |
| 10 | I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers . |
| 11 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |