Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.

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1 so she were just having a few crumpets
2 Bill and Cy were now standing a few yards from the string .
3 He did it on the guitar and you were simply found a few words and
4 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 .
5 I was only given a few days ' notice .
6 Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later .
7 This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk .
8 Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him .
9 ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people .
10 The best plan was therefore to study a few typical ones : T. H. Huxley 's course on the crayfish at South Kensington in the 1870s was based on this principle , close study of a crayfish preparing one for any invertebrate .
11 He was subsequently given a few walk-on parts .
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