Example sentences of "it be a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work .
2 It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on .
3 ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’
4 It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college .
5 But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday .
6 It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself .
7 It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor .
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