Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That that used to be mentioned between us er er a few times , I can remember it being mentioned a few times . |
| 2 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 3 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 4 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 5 | But it was followed a few months later by sort of mini riot . |
| 6 | However , I changed my mind about the seriousness of Denning 's pronouncements when it was declared a few weeks later that the case of the Birmingham Six was to be reconsidered . |
| 7 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 8 | It was found a few miles from his car on the seashore near Great Yarmouth . |
| 9 | He rapped three times on the door of Room 144 , it was opened a few inches . |