Example sentences of "[modal v] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should be a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 3 | ‘ There must be a few votes for an old soldier in the British Legion clubs , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 4 | Although his friend must be a few years younger than Alice , he was fancy-free , and Alice was so lovely to look at these days , the age difference would n't be noticed . |
| 5 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 6 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 7 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 8 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Rex might be a few minutes late . |
| 10 | If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund . |
| 11 | Councillor Peter , Mrs Pat , Sir John , Mr Peter and Mrs and David apologize , they will be attending but they 'll be a few minutes late . |
| 12 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 15 | If there 's a vacuum , then there 'll be a few charlatans , a few fools , a few incompetents who will fill that vacuum , because there is a need for people to , to be instant experts on everything . |
| 16 | Of course , they 'll be a few exceptions to this price freeze — mostly those more old-fashioned suppliers like IBM and Hewlett-Packard who can still afford to drop their prices by a notch or two . |
| 17 | It 'll be a few weeks and several meetings before it has established an official position . |
| 18 | ‘ Hello Friday — just to let you know I 'll be a few seconds late with the tea ! ’ |
| 19 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 20 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | A float could be on the cards by the end of next year , but before then there could be a few punch-ups with Britain 's farmers who provide all the milk to make the cheese . |
| 23 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 24 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 25 | I may be a few minutes late , but I can make it . ’ |
| 26 | Most of it is n't even scrap iron , but there may be a few pieces I could use . ’ |
| 27 | There may be a few examples of marsh woundwort stachys palustris still flowering during October . |
| 28 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 29 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 30 | It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time . |