Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 2 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 3 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 4 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 5 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 6 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 7 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 8 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 9 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 10 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 11 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 12 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 13 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 14 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 15 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 16 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 17 | so if you 're staying a few nights some get some saved up do n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 19 | Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing . |
| 20 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 21 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 22 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 23 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 24 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 25 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 26 | In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 28 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 29 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 30 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |