Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a few pence in the red to a bank that makes millions of pounds in profit every year . |
| 2 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
| 3 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 4 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 5 | The film in progress when I arrived showed a football match between a team of nuns and a team of soldiers , and every time the referee blew his whistle for a penalty ( which was every few seconds ) the player concerned had to lose a garment . |
| 6 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 7 | The applicant was employed by a company from 1959 to 1987 until she was dismissed by reason of redundancy when she was a few months over 60 . |
| 8 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 9 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 10 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
| 11 | She was a few strides away , I was taking a breath to shout a warning , when unexpectedly — by some wary instinct — she looked up , and halted . |
| 12 | She was n't booked with us , she was a few weeks early , and that 's why I could n't bring her to mind straight away . ’ |
| 13 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 14 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |
| 15 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
| 16 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 17 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 18 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 19 | On the doormat , there were a few late Christmas cards plus the inevitable letter from the bank , but no offers of job interviews . |
| 20 | There were a few villages in the lower hills and , further up , small groups of round mud-huts , each housing a couple of families , were dotted across the fields . |
| 21 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 22 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 23 | There were a few cows in the field and they were wandering in the direction of the sniper 's position . |
| 24 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 25 | There were a few dark places my parents liked to go into besides under their covers in bed . |
| 26 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 27 | There were a few exercises they forbade , and would never let the Prince pilot supersonic Buccaneers or the Sea King anti-submarine helicopters ; but he did qualify for membership of the exclusive Ten Ton Club , by flying at more than 1,000 m.p.h. in a phantom scrambled from Leuchars in Fife , which he had taken over Balmoral before going supersonic off the coast of Scotland . |
| 28 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
| 29 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 30 | Ten years ago , there were a few incidental boxes of onions in supermarkets ; in the new-age groceries , the shopper is usually greeted at the door by a banquet of fresh fruit and vegetables glowing with health . |