Example sentences of "[pron] [is] a few " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
2 | Women her age usually give up sex — she 's a few months older than me , you know . |
3 | When she 's a few months older Thia will be allowed in the same field as the farm 's other miniature , Carlsberg , a stallion . |
4 | ‘ Not for a measly fifty , ’ William laughs , as he and Andy pull together and draw together , tottering on the seat while Andy throws the emptied bottle to someone in the crowd and is handed another full magnum by his partner in The Gadget Shop , a fellow ex-ad-man who 's a few years older than Andy . |
5 | Sandy Lee 's mother , Siobhan Gilmore , her two youngest children , three-year-old Tamara and Deborah , who is a few months old , and Siobhan 's sister , Tanya , were taken to the Waveney Hospital suffering from shock and smoke inhalation . |
6 | But he told the judge : ‘ Her object has always been to secure the payment not just for herself but the little boy George who is a few months old . |
7 | There s a few more comments from Silver . |
8 | There s a few more comments from Silver . |
9 | There 's a few knots in it and it hurts a bit when she tugs the comb , but I do n't say nothing . |
10 | There 's a few people now and then going past , but no one stops . |
11 | There 's a few people about now . |
12 | There 's a few sights in the village . |
13 | There 's a few things of yer father 's you might like to keep . ’ |
14 | There 's a few German acts , like the Scorpions , but really very few . |
15 | But there 's a few things that will please the older fans . |
16 | ‘ We 've been looking into your background and there 's a few things there I do n't think you 'd like to come out . ’ |
17 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
18 | There 's a few more coming behind me . ’ |
19 | There 's a few other things |
20 | ‘ There 's a few teachers who you can get on with and talk to . |
21 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
22 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
23 | So there 's a few |
24 | Erm the erm th this shows Britain 's stockpile of , of uranium this is actually depleted uranium which can be used in the fast reactor but ca n't be used in the present type of er thermal reactors but what you see there is virtually the er all of it , th it 's , it 's erm stored at a place called erm er Capenhurst in , in Cheshire on the Wirral erm and erm there 's a few jars off the edge as you can see but basically that 's er that 's it and what you see there , in energy terms , represents erm the equivalent of our entire coal reserves . |
25 | There 's a few scowls and grimaces . |
26 | Because there 's a few sort of non-local calls I could make to get |
27 | But there 's a few good schools is n't there . |
28 | There 's a few examples here , Mother Theresa was one that sprung sprang to my mind when I was thinking it through . |
29 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |
30 | Er and she 's not I think there 's a few I 'm not sure . |