Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [pos pn] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe .
2 Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her .
3 Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home .
4 At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run .
5 But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years .
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