Example sentences of "[was/were] just [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
2 | Cos you were just a few minutes later this morning . |
3 | A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
6 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
7 | It was just a few scratches . |
8 | The first time he had driven the van to Stowbridge he had smashed its top to pieces against the arch of the bridge , not realising it was just a few inches too high to go under . |
9 | It was just a few inches below the surface . |
10 | Er right , now there was just a few things that er I 've got to ask . |
11 | A flurry of pleasure as my favourite , stacked nuts , came to the rescue and then the sling was just a few feet away . |
12 | Only too aware that her bed was just a few feet away , she gazed up at him , her eyes showing her confusion . |
13 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
14 | ‘ And it was just a few meals … ? ’ |
15 | There was just a few yards walk to the main road , a careful look around , then across it , instinctively choosing the potential cover of a derelict warehouse on that side rather than the dockyard fence on this . |
16 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
17 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
18 | Sharpe was just a few paces from his enemy . |
19 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
20 | When the Lockington railway disaster happened that was just a few miles from here . |