Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that , at , at at that time we 're only talking a few years ago |
| 2 | Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home . |
| 3 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 4 | The festival 's boring ; we 're here telling a few stories … |
| 5 | ‘ We are now examining a few contradictions and will decide on the matter next week , ’ a spokesman for the Belgian cycling union said . |
| 6 | I 'm here to earn a few bucks ! ’ |
| 7 | Whether we should be saying and saying District Council be requested to amend the local plan as suggested in paragraph two four two nine five and then nu number two would be there adding a few words to the original number one . |
| 8 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 9 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 10 | Bill and Cy were now standing a few yards from the string . |
| 11 | He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and |
| 12 | Fortunately for president Truman the American troops dispatched to stop them were officially declared a United Nations army engaged in a ‘ police action ’ to restore peace . |
| 13 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 14 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 15 | Knowing him , he is already keeping a few options open : polishing up his cover-drives and even experimenting , after watching Mushtaq , with legspinners and googlies . |
| 16 | What I 'll do when I get home is probably do a few jobs and then watch the film . |
| 17 | It is also building a key contacts list covering those with a part to play in the process . |
| 18 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 19 | An effective way to introduce a delightful perfume throughout your home is simply to place a few drops of essential oil or pot-pourri revitaliser into the water of a room humidifier . |
| 20 | The company is currently raising a million dollars in seed financing from private sources and will seek a final $8m round , perhaps in part from key OEMs . |
| 21 | Because we are actually spending a hundred pounds , and refurbishing it , when it 's ac which it could therefore be their , their entire responsibility . |
| 22 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 23 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 24 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 25 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 26 | Whether or not the law of negligence was correctly applied a hundred years ago in Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 , it has since then been evolving . |
| 27 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |
| 28 | He says he was initially paid a thousand pounds and at one point offered a further fifty . |
| 29 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |