Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously there were a few tears .
2 So there are a few initiatives there , but I do n't think there 's been done anything on the music front though .
3 Vacancies still exist for tenors and basses in particular and also there are a few spaces for contraltos .
4 Right , now there 's a few questions I 've got ta ask you
5 definitely trying to avoid my eyes now there 's a few eyes round here that look more like route maps of the M twenty five !
6 Now there are a few branches there , there 's one that 's lying kind of horizontal , it 'll be an idea to set someone on top of that .
7 Oh she 's says It 's not coal , no , I do n't use it for coal , she sa I 've got gas central heating , we do n't need No it 's just that er well there are a few things in there .
8 Well there 's a few children around but erm they generally tend to be the older ones .
9 It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks .
10 Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was .
11 BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned .
12 Then there were a few things that reinforced that feeling .
13 Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do
14 ‘ He is , or at least he was a few hours ago .
15 Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand .
16 Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops .
17 And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ?
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