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Example sentences of "[pron] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .