Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
| 2 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 3 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
| 4 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 5 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 6 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 7 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 8 | Days later , we were only a few bio-hours from the Vadinamian system when we received a call from Mala 's pet FedPol , Chertro . |
| 9 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 10 | They were just a few suggestions on display at a Christmas food festival , and traders are proud to say that they 're all produced locally . |
| 11 | In fact , as a result of automation and computerisation , production costs as a percentage of total cost are now considerably lower than they were only a few years ago . |
| 12 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |
| 13 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |