Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 2 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |
| 3 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 4 | The pair in fact decided to work together after Merton added a joke to a skit of Clary 's a few years ago : a man is returning from a holiday in Morocco , and is stopped and questioned by Moroccan customs . |
| 5 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 6 | Sandy was a few months younger than Wayne , but unlike Wayne she 'd stayed on at school . |
| 7 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |
| 8 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
| 9 | Peter was a few years older and shared David 's passion for gambling and the good things in life . |
| 10 | Cooper Union is a few blocks west . |
| 11 | Pauline was a few years older than Chris , who was 31 , but they had found mutual support and love , and together created the opportunity to live on their own . |
| 12 | The only time he 's actually been in London was a few years ago , when he accompanied me on a poll tax demonstration . |
| 13 | So home for Marcus was a few dangerous objects that were extensions of people , Bill 's ashtray and pipe , Bill 's carving tools , his mother 's rubber gloves , his bed and the shelf in his bedroom with his model Spitfire . |
| 14 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |