Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 2 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 3 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 4 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 5 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 6 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 7 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 8 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 9 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 10 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 11 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 12 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 13 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
| 14 | A comprehensive review of the problem of attempted suicide and its management was carried out a few years later by a committee chaired by Sir Denis Hill . |
| 15 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 16 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 17 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 18 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 19 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 20 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 21 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 22 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 23 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 24 | All you had to do here was to move back a few steps and you 've made it much more interesting in the foreground . |