Example sentences of "be a [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact it 's been a great few weeks for me . |
| 2 | It had been a terrible few seconds until Dorcas 's eyes adjusted to the distance . |
| 3 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 4 | It had been a grand few minutes ' work . |
| 5 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 6 | It 's been a difficult few weeks for the princess ; after a book on her life and marriage was published ; it 's at time like this problems with relationships or turning points , that many people consult Debbie . |
| 7 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 8 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 9 | It has been a rewarding few years . |
| 10 | It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight . |
| 11 | The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey . |
| 12 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 13 | It has been an excellent few weeks for the Treloar club . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to Northumberland , but it has been an exhausting few days for me and I intend to stop halfway . |
| 15 | ‘ Never tempted , ’ he replied , and while Fabia recognised that there would be a good few women sorry about that , ‘ Boyfriends ? ’ he queried . |
| 16 | It will be a good few months — possibly more like a year — before Windows NT , the operating system with a Window face , comes along . |
| 17 | But there were a good few tears backed up my tracks and now was as bad a time as any . |
| 18 | There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed . |
| 19 | Indeed , by far the most surprising thing about the whole workwear-as-fashion issue is that , despite now being a fair few months down the workwear/style line , there are still the doubters , the sceptics , the fashion-aware bods who hiss ‘ hype ’ at the mere mention of moleskin . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a good few decibels higher out of doors . ’ |
| 21 | There 's a good few months ’ work , if i 'm any judge . ’ |
| 22 | Ah well it 's a good few years for this . |
| 23 | There 's a good few people around this quarter afraid of you and of what you can do when you open your mouth . |
| 24 | It is a good few years since most of them were serving , and the memories will soon be flooding back . |
| 25 | to England it was a terrible few winters I remember really hard ones |
| 26 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
| 27 | We were neither of us getting any younger , but he was a good few years older than I and I was the one with the roof over my head . |
| 28 | It was a fatal few days . |