Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chick 's beaks are removed with a hot knife when they are just a few days old in order to prevent the savage pecking which often occurs in densely populated factory farming environments . |
| 2 | But by their very nature they are only a few lines on a piece of paper at the moment . |
| 3 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 4 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 5 | Even when they are only a few months old , they have claws and teeth quite long and sharp enough to damage one another . |
| 6 | Innovating new products , developing existing ones and a progressive programme of improving quality and services — they 're just a few reasons why Veka , and the people who choose Veka , will never stand still . |
| 7 | He says that although they 're just a few millimetres in size , in a year they 'll be as big as their mother . |
| 8 | They were just a few suggestions on display at a Christmas food festival , and traders are proud to say that they 're all produced locally . |
| 9 | In fact , as a result of automation and computerisation , production costs as a percentage of total cost are now considerably lower than they were only a few years ago . |