Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | Captain McArthur said : ‘ I was here a few evenings ago , when the band played the anthem . |
| 3 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 4 | Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird . |
| 5 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 6 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 8 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 9 | all the way , you look one way as far as you can see and you , when you go to Gibraltar you 're only a few miles from Africa |
| 10 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 11 | She has worked her way slowly up the rankings until now she is only a few places behind Durie in the high sixties . |
| 12 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 13 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 14 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 15 | Her mother Fran said : ‘ I can not believe we are just a few hours from going home . |
| 16 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 17 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 18 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 19 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 20 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 21 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 22 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 23 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 24 | The chick 's beaks are removed with a hot knife when they are just a few days old in order to prevent the savage pecking which often occurs in densely populated factory farming environments . |
| 25 | But by their very nature they are only a few lines on a piece of paper at the moment . |
| 26 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 27 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 28 | Even when they are only a few months old , they have claws and teeth quite long and sharp enough to damage one another . |
| 29 | Innovating new products , developing existing ones and a progressive programme of improving quality and services — they 're just a few reasons why Veka , and the people who choose Veka , will never stand still . |
| 30 | He says that although they 're just a few millimetres in size , in a year they 'll be as big as their mother . |