Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be a few minutes late , but I can make it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Hello Friday — just to let you know I 'll be a few seconds late with the tea ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off . |
| 4 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 5 | Councillor Peter , Mrs Pat , Sir John , Mr Peter and Mrs and David apologize , they will be attending but they 'll be a few minutes late . |
| 6 | Of course , they 'll be a few exceptions to this price freeze — mostly those more old-fashioned suppliers like IBM and Hewlett-Packard who can still afford to drop their prices by a notch or two . |
| 7 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 8 | No I never thought that they will be a few days ! |
| 9 | If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund . |
| 10 | It 'll be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position . |
| 11 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 12 | So it could be a few months yet before we see Lawrence in the lightning form that bowled out England Captain Graham Gooch last season … |
| 13 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 14 | It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time . |
| 15 | Jenner had begun to make use of cowpox for human vaccination in 1798 , but it would be a few years before its use was widespread , and 1840 before it was available free . |
| 16 | It will be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position . |
| 17 | Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be a few years , ’ they said , ‘ before we know that you 're really all right . ’ |
| 19 | And it will be a few days before anyone scores a goal through these posts in Hereford . |