Example sentences of "i was [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Captain McArthur said : ‘ I was here a few evenings ago , when the band played the anthem .
2 I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do .
3 Then , waiting until everyone else had taken their pictures , I crept forward until I was only a few metres from the bird .
4 Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ?
5 I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon .
6 He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb .
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