Example sentences of "[det] be [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just a few lines to a friend or relative without any complaints in it . |
| 2 | This is just a few months before the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 3 | These are just a few examples of the types of products that can be found within the leading farm shops in Surrey who will also be exhibiting , including Secretts from Milford . |
| 4 | These are just a few examples of animal-borne infection to which humans are susceptible . |
| 5 | These are just a few examples of the use of modern biological control agents , though as Jutsum ( 1988 ) points out , the commercial value of these is currently less than 1 per cent of the global market value of crop-protection and public health agents ( mainly chemicals ) which currently amounts to $16 000 million annually . |
| 6 | These are just a few examples where public expenditure in the social services has direct implications for a number of private enterprises and , through them , for the entire national economy . |
| 7 | These are just a few examples of a wide range of security problems that can be encountered in the many disciplines of IT system development and operation . |
| 8 | These are only a few examples of the applications of scientific research to metal artefacts . |
| 9 | That is just a few words in your mind you can see a person walking along . |
| 10 | When the Lockington railway disaster happened that was just a few miles from here . |
| 11 | And er that was quite a few years ago , about the conditions and on tea estates , and er er that was partly why we switched mostly to Kenyan tea I think after that . |
| 12 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 13 | Individually , haplochromines are not spectacular in appearance : most are only a few centimetres long , and silvery , when they are not in their breeding colours . |
| 14 | Most are only a few millimetres long . |