Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 2 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 3 | We had no Peters , no Colins , only one David and , though there had been a Kevin a few years back , we were now understaffed in that area too . |
| 4 | Whether the crack is forced open by a wedge , such as a nail or a chisel , or whether it is opened by a remotely applied tensile stress or bending load affects the general stress distribution in the whole body of the material very greatly , but , as far as the region sensitive to fracture is concerned , that is the area a few molecules wide in the region of the tip , the stress pattern is identical . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's an airfield a few miles north , between here and Trapani . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
| 8 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |