Example sentences of "[be] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're a few minutes early … ’ |
| 2 | However , if I talk about Tyneside when I am a few miles away in Teesside or Wearside , I am in real trouble . |
| 3 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 4 | It 's become apparent that had the plane been a few feet higher it would have hill . |
| 5 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 6 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 7 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 8 | There are a few problems there . |
| 9 | It 's true that there are a few natives here ( known as ‘ Eyeties ’ to the British colonials ) , who are useful to serve as maids , waiters or ‘ chaps to look after the swimming-pool ’ . |
| 10 | So there are a few initiatives there , but I do n't think there 's been done anything on the music front though . |
| 11 | ’ Oh , what are a few Kopeks more or less ? ’ |
| 12 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 13 | We are a few yards away from the Palace Pier and in an ideal position for all attractions including the Marina ; Conference Centre and ‘ The Lanes ’ . |
| 14 | There are a few rattles here and there , but in general the fretwork is quite well finished . |
| 15 | ‘ Rex might be a few minutes late . |
| 16 | I may be a few minutes late , but I can make it . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off . |
| 18 | Your letter need only be a few lines long , but use your own words to explain why you think time must be found for the Bill . |
| 19 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the few remaining points on . |
| 20 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 21 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 22 | When you have noted the area where the bream cease to roll and do not appear again in the immediate vicinity , the terminal point will be a few yards further along in the direction they were travelling . |
| 23 | ‘ Hello Friday — just to let you know I 'll be a few seconds late with the tea ! ’ |
| 24 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 25 | So it could be a few months yet before we see Lawrence in the lightning form that bowled out England Captain Graham Gooch last season … |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll only be a few weeks late . |
| 27 | That evening at dinner in the hotel they were a few tables away , just out of earshot but plainly visible . |
| 28 | There were a few tears even the obstetrician seemed a bit overcome and kept shaking my hand . |
| 29 | There were a few houses here and there , some clearly centuries old , their stones weathered to a cream , and pale sand , dark shutters closed against the power of the south-western sun . |
| 30 | Their faces were a few inches apart — and then they were in each other 's arms and she whispered , ‘ Yes — I still love you . |