Example sentences of "[be] a few [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been a few year they 've been , been about , must have been er erm twenty or thirty year now . |
| 2 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 3 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 4 | When we find this extremely difficult , there are a few things we can do to make it easier . |
| 5 | ‘ I think there are a few things we ought to get straight , ’ he said coolly . |
| 6 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
| 7 | ‘ It sounds nice and I appreciate it , but if it 's all the same to you , there are a few things I need to catch up on . |
| 8 | ‘ Listen to me , pal , because there are a few things you could learn . |
| 9 | But before you install one , especially of the coal or gas-burning variety , which needs the correct flue conditions so that harmful fumes are expelled , there are a few things you must check . |
| 10 | There are a few things you can do to make sure that when Animosity strikes the effect is minimal . |
| 11 | Okay Suzanne before you go for your first sail there are a few things you need to learn about basic boat controls . |
| 12 | ‘ Right , young lady , there are a few things you need to know about how I run this unit , and the first is that my nurses do n't loll around in the corridors indulging in idle chatter with strange men ! ’ |
| 13 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 14 | There are a few scenes I 'd just like to run through before we break and — ’ |
| 15 | It might seem unlikely but down in serene Somerset about as far from Teesside as you can get there are a few locals who would agree with him this week . |
| 16 | Dark ages ; but there are a few performers who take these pieces seriously , and their beacons light the path for others to follow . |
| 17 | Sorry , this show came up so suddenly , there are a few dates we 'll have to work round . ’ |
| 18 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 19 | But because we must n't let anyone know he 's here , there are a few precautions we must take . |
| 20 | He subdivided this very large genus into several ‘ sections ’ , each of which contained species which were similar to each other and probably closely related — though there are a few species which , in typical cichlid fashion , do n't seem to fit properly anywhere . |
| 21 | Third , there are a few sources which fire repeatedly : these lie at depths between about 300 km and 800 km and may be the result of tidal stresses produced in the Moon by the Earth . |
| 22 | I mean I looked through it yesterday and th there are a few reconciliations which would n't take much sorting out . |
| 23 | Here are a few suggestions which you may find helpful : |
| 24 | Unlike yourselves , Dr Blake has only recently joined us , and there are a few people she should meet . ’ |
| 25 | And there are a few people who wo n't be pleased whatever you do . |
| 26 | There are a few people who are out to cause you any aggravation , whom you have to treat that seriously . |
| 27 | There are a few people who develop sores or cracked skin at the corner of the mouth and suffer from riboflavin or vitamin B2 deficiency . |
| 28 | There are a few people who claim even to know about the lobbying process in Brussels . |
| 29 | There are a few exceptions which I will come back to later , but generally ‘ government ’ is used interchangeably with ‘ state ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |