Example sentences of "he was [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 2 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 3 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
| 4 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 5 | Dr Enevoldson said the more records of blood and bone marrow types she has , the more chance of helping patients like the England and Spurs striker 's baby son , who was taken ill with a form of leukaemia when he was only a few months old . |
| 6 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 7 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |