Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 2 | We can reveal exclusively that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were in London a few weeks ago they went shopping for baby clothes . |
| 3 | I think I was er , I thought I was in love a few times , but erm in retrospect it was lust |
| 4 | ‘ I was in Florida a few weeks ago and heard an album cut at my studios a few years ago by the Diamond Accordion Band being played on a pub juke box . |
| 5 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
| 6 | I was in China a few years ago and was fascinated to discover there was one bicycle for every thirty Chinese , and you see they 're not going to be distributed very equally are they ? |
| 7 | It 's interesting because I was in Nottingham a few weeks ago and actually on Nottingham market they sell a lot of goat meat |
| 8 | Well they are , it 's a long story , again it brings Banbury in it again because when Phil was at Banbury a few years ago , he left to join Brackley Town . |