Example sentences of "[pron] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
2 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
3 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
4 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
5 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |
6 | I 'm a few minutes |
7 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Sometimes there may be a timed section which is a few jumps and you have to go as fast as you can . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Women her age usually give up sex — she 's a few months older than me , you know . |
13 | When she 's a few months older Thia will be allowed in the same field as the farm 's other miniature , Carlsberg , a stallion . |
14 | ‘ Not for a measly fifty , ’ William laughs , as he and Andy pull together and draw together , tottering on the seat while Andy throws the emptied bottle to someone in the crowd and is handed another full magnum by his partner in The Gadget Shop , a fellow ex-ad-man who 's a few years older than Andy . |
15 | Sandy Lee 's mother , Siobhan Gilmore , her two youngest children , three-year-old Tamara and Deborah , who is a few months old , and Siobhan 's sister , Tanya , were taken to the Waveney Hospital suffering from shock and smoke inhalation . |
16 | But he told the judge : ‘ Her object has always been to secure the payment not just for herself but the little boy George who is a few months old . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
20 | ‘ 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 . |
21 | 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 . ’ |
22 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
23 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
26 | We are a few yards away from the Palace Pier and in an ideal position for all attractions including the Marina ; Conference Centre and ‘ The Lanes ’ . |
27 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
28 | Sometimes we were a few feet higher , sometimes the other one was . |
29 | We were a few feet from the main entrance , but he needed to pause before moving on . |
30 | 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 . |