Example sentences of "[be] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |
| 2 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 3 | Should be a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He said he was only going to be a few minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ Rex might be a few minutes late . |
| 6 | ‘ She says she 'll only be a few minutes . ’ |
| 7 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
| 8 | Councillor Peter , Mrs Pat , Sir John , Mr Peter and Mrs and David apologize , they will be attending but they 'll be a few minutes late . |
| 9 | I may be a few minutes late , but I can make it . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll only be a few minutes , then I 'll cook you some breakfast , ’ she said briskly . |
| 11 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |
| 12 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 13 | While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window . |
| 14 | Of course , all the research in the world does n't mean there wo n't be a few surprises . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says . |
| 16 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 17 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 18 | The temperature will only rise a little this afternoon — we can expect around nine or ten degrees celsius , that 's about forty eight fahrenheit , but there will be a few spots in the east that will get a degree or two higher . |
| 19 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 20 | I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off . |
| 21 | There have to be a few secrets between a woman and her dybbuk . |
| 22 | Your letter need only be a few lines long , but use your own words to explain why you think time must be found for the Bill . |
| 23 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 24 | Well , all right , everyone knows that there are going to be a few fools who insist on trying to break their necks … |
| 25 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 26 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 27 | There 'll still be a few showers around this evening , but they 'll die out later . |
| 28 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
| 29 | there are several marked differences in the way that industrialisation has proceeded country-by-country ; that there is no single logic of industrialisation , though there may only be a few paths . |
| 30 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |