Example sentences of "[noun] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following projects are a few examples of those that exist around the country . |
| 2 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 3 | Laurels , aucubas and different colours of conifers are a few suggestions . |
| 4 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 5 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 6 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 7 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |
| 8 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 9 | They only buy them from discount houses , and then only after the bills are a few weeks old . |
| 10 | Two huge human feet were a few inches away from them . |
| 11 | All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church . |
| 12 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 13 | And so what if her dentures are a few molars short of the set . |
| 14 | Kabelvåg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized . |
| 15 | Tappersdorf was a few stops along the line — countrified and still keeping a rural quietness : poplars masked a factory , behind pre-war houses with steeply pitched roofs fields of sprouts stretched away , the sprouts looking oddly sentient as they stood in their patient , frosty queues , waiting to be picked . |
| 16 | Interspersed between tragic stories are a few songs supplying pointed but comic relief . |
| 17 | The pair in fact decided to work together after Merton added a joke to a skit of Clary 's a few years ago : a man is returning from a holiday in Morocco , and is stopped and questioned by Moroccan customs . |
| 18 | You can see from Figure 9.5 that there exist regions in the Jovian atmosphere where temperatures are about 300 K and the corresponding pressures are a few bars . |
| 19 | Among his later publications were a few yearbooks of Edward III , 1527–32 ( STC 9562 , 9565 ) , and Sir Anthony Fitzherbert 's La novel natura brevium , 1534 ( STC 10958 ) , proving that he remained familiar with the legal milieu of Rastell and Pynson . |
| 20 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 21 | Sandy was a few months younger than Wayne , but unlike Wayne she 'd stayed on at school . |
| 22 | Most species are a few centimetres to a few tens of centimetres long . |
| 23 | On the whole I think it 's a , a good thing , er it 's only five or six years ago that an historian called Paul Kennedy published a book saying that America was in decline as a super power , er and in fact I think what 's happening is that er , there are , there are going to be clusters of super powers now in the world and they 're all more modest than American and the Soviet Union were a few years ago . |
| 24 | The village centre is a few minutes stroll , and with the ferry jetty nearby , the Monastero at Varenna , and adjacent villas with their semi-tropical gardens are all within easy reach . |
| 25 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |
| 26 | The energy flux of PSR1718–19 at the surface of the companion is a few orders of magnitude below the critical flux necessary for substantial swelling of the companion due to irradiation . |
| 27 | The tiny seaside resort of Widemouth Bay is a few minutes walk from our entrance . |
| 28 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
| 29 | Peter was a few years older and shared David 's passion for gambling and the good things in life . |
| 30 | The call was a few minutes in coming through — probably they had to look for Seddon at the other end . |