Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed , trapping them . |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale there were a few offices which were formally and legally hereditary . |
| 3 | Behind the sundial there were a few trees , some of them in flower : a small path led into their deceptive shallow depths , and there , in a hollow a few yards from a high brick wall that bordered the garden , stood a sculpture . |
| 4 | That evening at dinner in the hotel they were a few tables away , just out of earshot but plainly visible . |
| 5 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |