Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 2 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 3 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 4 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 5 | I 'll be fine in a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He 'll be fine in a few days , my dear , with an infusion of clover and foxglove to steady his heart . |
| 7 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 8 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 9 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 10 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 11 | If he decides to ring us we 'll be short of a few answers . ’ |
| 12 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 13 | Once he had gone , Shiona sank down on to the bed and kicked off her shoes , glad to be alone for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Just a willingness to be available for a few hours to suit you — within an agreed rota — to walk around the reserve helping people enjoy their visit and also avoiding problems of pressure on sensitive reserve areas . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 16 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 17 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
| 18 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 19 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 20 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 21 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 22 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
| 23 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 24 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 25 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 26 | Once all the information has been incorporated , the sequence of phases will have been assigned dates at various points , although these will be of differing quality : some may be accurate to a few years , others only to the nearest couple of centuries . |
| 27 | Before studying the procedures described further on , it will be helpful to be familiar with a few facts and suggestions for making personal " rules of thumb " and simplified tables as aids to mental calculations . |
| 28 | They think they can be thin for a few years and get away with it . ’ |
| 29 | Expert evidence from a suitably qualified mechanical engineer may be necessary on a few occasions . |
| 30 | ‘ But they could be eighteen for a few moments . |