Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 2 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 3 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 4 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 5 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 6 | There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice . |
| 7 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 8 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 11 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 12 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 13 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 14 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 15 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 16 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 17 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 18 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 19 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 21 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 22 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 23 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 24 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 25 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 26 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 27 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 28 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 29 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 30 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |