Example sentences of "[ex0] [modal v] [be] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Most of it is n't even scrap iron , but there may be a few pieces I could use . ’ |
2 | There may be a few examples of marsh woundwort stachys palustris still flowering during October . |
3 | ‘ There must be a few votes for an old soldier in the British Legion clubs , ’ he says optimistically . |
4 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
5 | If there 's a vacuum , then there 'll be a few charlatans , a few fools , a few incompetents who will fill that vacuum , because there is a need for people to , to be instant experts on everything . |
6 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
7 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
8 | A float could be on the cards by the end of next year , but before then there could be a few punch-ups with Britain 's farmers who provide all the milk to make the cheese . |
9 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
10 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
11 | The temperature will only rise a little this afternoon — we can expect around nine or ten degrees celsius , that 's about forty eight fahrenheit , but there will be a few spots in the east that will get a degree or two higher . |
12 | ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says . |
13 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
14 | There will be a few multiples but only because they are finished works which exist essentially in that form . |
15 | For each of these properties , there will be a few clusters which can be assigned average characteristics . |
16 | ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops . |
17 | There will be a few tools needed which wo n't be in your standard tool kit , and the hire of a number of semi-industrial tools will make work that much easier . |
18 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
19 | Oh , I 'm absolutely sure it is , as , as I say there will be a few months of real suffering in , in eastern Germany and it may be a year and a half to two years before East Germany begans to , begins to show up plus figures , er on , instead of minus figures on the national statistics . |
20 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |