Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 2 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 3 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 4 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 5 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |
| 6 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 7 | Obviously Duncan was calling in a few debts . |
| 8 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |