Example sentences of "there were [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the meteorite landed there were big problems in Kershaw , just like there were again a few years ago . |
| 2 | Already the muster was a week late ; and there were not a few contingents still to come in , including the Regent 's own . |
| 3 | Lady Street was busy : there were even a few visitors about , weaving between the parked vans and lorries . |
| 4 | During the Suez fiasco in 1956 Eden considered an identical idea , and there were even a few voices suggesting something similar during the Falklands War in 1982 . |
| 5 | Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood . |
| 6 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
| 7 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 8 | However you said there were quite a few families with twelve |
| 9 | And there were quite a few members had started coming from up the lane and some of the people . |
| 10 | Some of the locals watching remembered when all the schoolchildren assembled to watch the ceremony ; there were quite a few groups of children there that day , with notebooks , pencils and teachers . |
| 11 | There were quite a few customers even this early in the morning . |
| 12 | And er , without putting too fine a point on it , er there , there were quite a few moans coming from the bedroom , from the lady , and er , my son said , er , er , I do n't think she 's very well daddy . |
| 13 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |
| 14 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 15 | There were quite a few nomes behind Nisodemus . |
| 16 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 17 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 18 | But there were quite a few grumblings that Rocky was n't even on the bench . |
| 19 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 20 | There were still a few stars but the moon was down , and there was a faint grey glow to rimward . |
| 21 | There were still a few grains of corn left . |
| 22 | It felt strange now , but there were still a few shops that seemed familiar . |
| 23 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 24 | However , an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on Sept. 18 revealed that the exchange of prisoners had suddenly been interrupted on Sept. 15 reportedly because there were only a few prisoners in Iraq , while almost 20,000 remained in Iran , many of whom were unwilling to return to Iraq . |
| 25 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 26 | There were only a few gulls , though , wheeling in a sky shot with ragged clouds . |
| 27 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 28 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 29 | There were only a few inches |
| 30 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |