Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and |
| 2 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 3 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 4 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 5 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 6 | He was subsequently given a few walk-on parts . |