Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] a few " in BNC.

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1 All I want is a few answers , then you 're free to leave any time you like . ’
2 But all I find are a few rather stale cobs already fallen to the ground .
3 And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm .
4 All you need is a few pounds to meet unexpected and urgent costs .
5 because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er
6 So miracles can be worked , but what we need is a few smoke signals to indicate that someone , somewhere in the four home unions has the preparations for the world sevens championship a little further advanced than the drawing board .
7 Laziest player Again there 've been a few .
8 In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) .
9 There have been a few hostile bids , most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate , Navigation Mixte .
10 Unfortunately , there have been a few more hurdles since then .
11 We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments .
12 I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury !
13 No one has ever refused to go up , but there have been a few that needed coaxing down ! ’
14 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 .
15 While there have been a few , if any , import restrictions on EC goods coming into this country , our community partners have astutely managed to find ways to restrict the flow of British goods into theirs .
16 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 .
17 THERE HAVE been a few tactical errors made in the winter lists of new rugby books .
18 There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season , of course .
19 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 .
20 I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you .
21 Although there have been a few gains , these have been outweighed by the losses .
22 But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper .
23 There have been a few interventions .
24 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
25 We need an undivided sport , there have been a few occasions , sadly , when clubs and associations have followed marginally divisive lines as we attempt to represent the sport similar bodies which does not help our cause .
26 There have been a few comments passed about the way you 're behaving , but do n't worry , next time I hear anyone discussing it I 'll set them straight . ’
27 There have been a few problems , ’ he said flatly .
28 Lately , there have been a few million unemployed , massive recession and a resulting rise in crime .
29 But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better .
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