Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
| 14 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | There were a few tears even the obstetrician seemed a bit overcome and kept shaking my hand . |
| 18 | She was agitated ; there were a few tears . |
| 19 | Obviously there were a few tears . |
| 20 | But there were a few tears at the time were n't there ? |
| 21 | There were a few girls there . |
| 22 | There were a few sticks of furniture and the floor was beaten earth , rather cold despite the summer . |
| 23 | There were a few villages in the lower hills and , further up , small groups of round mud-huts , each housing a couple of families , were dotted across the fields . |
| 24 | Although many of the early worries were unfounded , there were a few surprises for the host families . |
| 25 | There were a few others of the same period , Youngs Mill being advertised for sale in 1828 , with a 16hp engine , driving three pairs of four foot diameter stones . |
| 26 | Many of them Dorcas recognized as Stationeri , but there were a few others from some of the great departmental families . |
| 27 | There were a few problems with the casting of the men and staffing for the kitchen , but these were overcome and an excellent play resulted a sentiment that I think the four hundred and thirty seven strong audience would agree with . |
| 28 | There were a few problems there though were n't there , about the work permit ? |
| 29 | There were a few members of staff who could do with a visit from beyond the tomb . |
| 30 | The people heading for the square were mostly men although there were a few women , dressed in black . |