Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
2 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
3 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
4 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
5 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
6 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
7 | And another I noticed erm Simon 's been bringing a few of his friends home from school and erm I mean he 's in a class of thirty eight |
8 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
9 | Talking of scary moments , Manc popsters THE AWESOME THREE are encountering a few of those since releasing their ‘ Possessed ’ single . |
10 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
11 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
12 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
13 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
14 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
15 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
16 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
17 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
18 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
19 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
20 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
21 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
22 | so if you 're staying a few nights some get some saved up do n't you ? |
23 | We 're having a few extra of these if you want to send something else out |
24 | They 're spendin' a few thousand on the Town Centre plantin' all trees 'n' things . |
25 | The slight time delay is still there ( really , we 're talking a few 1000ths of a second ) but the tracking is quite a lot better . |
26 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
27 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
28 | Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing . |
29 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
30 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |