Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 7 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The returns from farming were generally poor and land prices were below what they were a few years ago . |
| 18 | Despite the ‘ Britain 's ugliest group ’ tag that 's hung around their neck since the start , the Inspirals are a better band to look at than they were a few years back . |
| 19 | That evening at dinner in the hotel they were a few tables away , just out of earshot but plainly visible . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 21 | My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old . |
| 22 | Wearing breathing apparatus they were a few feet into the building when overhead piping collapsed , trapping them . |
| 23 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 24 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 25 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 26 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 27 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 28 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 29 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |