Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These unreasonable expectations are behind not a few referrals to social services , or they may militate against success in other cases which involve children and young people . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the fourth month , a young man who had been in only a few days attacked Carter with a knife . |
| 3 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 4 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 5 | Because the actual physical damage was so variable in its extent , it was immediately obvious to the early investigators that the almost total mortality was not solely the result of the force of the blast , since there would have been at least a few survivors in areas where the blast was less severe . |
| 6 | It is easy to see from this drivechart that the number of possible modes of operation is large , but that the choice facing the teacher at any given moment is among only a few possibilities . |
| 7 | They missed Delmonico 's by only a few blocks geographically but far more gastronomically — or so Maxim assumed since he also assumed that Delmonico 's did n't specialise in hamburgers and tuna sandwiches for the decorators working on the shop next door . |
| 8 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |