Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 2 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 3 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 4 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 5 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 6 | In a few cases data were not available for some of the more minor roads entering a junction . |
| 7 | A few reference books were collected from the library , from people 's own shelves ; somebody found a couple of Leicester guide books in a Yorkshire second-hand shop . |
| 8 | A few FGD schemes were installed : at North Wilford , Battersea , Bankside and Fulham . |
| 9 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 10 | A few late-Sunday diners were finishing their lime pie and coconut ice-cream as the small party walked past the vast open dining-room and onto the deep enclosed veranda which was used as a bar . |
| 11 | Quite a few membership forms were applied for , together with promises of photographs , information etc . |
| 12 | When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity . |
| 13 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 14 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 15 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 16 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 17 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 18 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 19 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 20 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |