Example sentences of "[pron] was 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | She was a few yards from the sea 's shifting edge . |
| 9 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall . |
| 12 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 13 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 14 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 15 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 16 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 17 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 18 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 19 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 20 | It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost . |
| 21 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 22 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 23 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 24 | Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago . |
| 25 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 26 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 28 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 29 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 30 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |