Example sentences of "[is] a few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |
| 2 | ‘ Jerry — he went into the men 's a few minutes ago and he has n't come out . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a few snowdrops out , Miss , ’ Lyddy said . |
| 4 | there 's a few times so I 'll give you that four . |
| 5 | it 's Discount , there 's a few houses then there 's a gateway , back entrance into school . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been looking into your background and there 's a few things there I do n't think you 'd like to come out . ’ |
| 7 | Er , and eating will be always one of , and so on , there 's a few items there , that you might like to concentrate on , and perhaps , as much as anything , if you have your minds open in the intervening number of weeks . |
| 8 | definitely trying to avoid my eyes now there 's a few eyes round here that look more like route maps of the M twenty five ! |
| 9 | ‘ Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right . |
| 10 | Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though . |
| 11 | The pair in fact decided to work together after Merton added a joke to a skit of Clary 's a few years ago : a man is returning from a holiday in Morocco , and is stopped and questioned by Moroccan customs . |
| 12 | I have n't been to Paris since er ooh a long time a whe last time I went there I was on honeymoon so that 's a few years ago . |
| 13 | And that 's a few years ago . |
| 14 | That 's a few years ago , never mind a few months . |
| 15 | All of which pushed THe Smiths surprisingly above the more ‘ instant ’ Frankie Goes To Hollywood and implied that their following touched the size of The Jam 's a few years previously . |
| 16 | There 's a number in the er when I was Church Street so that 's a few years now so it needs to be checked . |
| 17 | There 's a few examples here , Mother Theresa was one that sprung sprang to my mind when I was thinking it through . |
| 18 | Well there 's a few children around but erm they generally tend to be the older ones . |
| 19 | The entrance to the Clementinum ( 1/190 ) is a few steps farther down , on the same side of the street . |
| 20 | Your own real live Mutant Ninja Turtle ( just ‘ 4,000 at any good BioGenToyPet outlet ) is a few years away yet . |
| 21 | But this girl was talking this is a few years back now . |
| 22 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |