Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 2 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 3 | there was already quite a few trees there , it was like a small wood and they 've plan and |
| 4 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 5 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 6 | It felt like an hour , but it was probably only a few minutes . |
| 7 | I think somebody brought that in from er he he 'd gone along when I was up here a few weeks back . |
| 8 | After this concerted effort by all adults , it was really only a few weeks before she learnt not to smack other children . |
| 9 | The general election was now only a few months away . |
| 10 | He 's lucky he was n't here a few years ago , when we really hated the Japanese . |
| 11 | Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times . |
| 12 | One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time . |