Example sentences of "[be] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 2 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 3 | I think there 're , there 're a few things erm , I think you asked the question er , Peter , about having eighteen people on one base all got to work together . |
| 4 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 5 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 7 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 8 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
| 9 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 10 | There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships . |
| 11 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 12 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 13 | ‘ There have been a few problems , ’ he said flatly . |
| 14 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
| 15 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 16 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 17 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 18 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 19 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 20 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 21 | We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments . |
| 22 | There have been a few interventions . |
| 23 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 24 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 25 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 26 | It 's become apparent that had the plane been a few feet higher it would have hill . |
| 27 | Reminiscing from the autumn of his mid-twenties , he told Louise Colet that ‘ the greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts , reading , certain sunsets by the sea at Trouville , and conversations of five or six hours on the trot with a friend [ Alfred k Poittevin ] who is now married and lost to me . ’ |
| 28 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 29 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 30 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |