Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 2 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 3 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 4 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 5 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 6 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 7 | In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines . |
| 8 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |
| 9 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 10 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
| 11 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 12 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 13 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 14 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 15 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 16 | The cuckoo is always a few steps in the lead , because of its extraordinary survival factors . |
| 17 | ‘ The police station is only a few minutes walk away . ’ |
| 18 | The mercantile community itself has different , indeed competing interests : manufacturer v. dealer , seller v. buyer , banker v. customer , local merchant v. foreign merchant are just a few examples . |
| 19 | Dateline … swindon monday morning … six o clock … the Link Centre … for most folk the start of the working week is still a few hours away … but the Tigersharks are wide awake and raring to go … |
| 20 | Put a scrap of newspaper on the block or box and lower the strip until the drop is only a few millimetres above the paper . |
| 21 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
| 22 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
| 23 | The creature was only a few metres away now . |
| 24 | There is a generous provision for car and coach parking and the centre is only a few minutes walk from the train and bus stations . |
| 25 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 26 | In materials composed of sand-sized particles this depth is just a few millimetres , but in clay-sized materials in which the voids are or less across it can be tens of metres . |
| 27 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 28 | France has gone , and Belgium and Holland , and the German army is only a few miles away across the Channel . |
| 29 | Only too aware that her bed was just a few feet away , she gazed up at him , her eyes showing her confusion . |
| 30 | Ten single decker buses currently in service in the county are just a few months away from their 20th birthdays and there are still three 1973-registered double deckers trundling around Durham . |