Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 32 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 33 | Token bets had been made by a few on the opposing Southern team , so Rex was able to ‘ collect ’ from long time colleagues as well as being presented with a cheque b Mr Ellis . |
| 34 | With apologies to Winston Churchill I venture to mis-quote : ‘ Never has so much rubbish been written by a few , against so many . ’ |
| 35 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 36 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 37 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 38 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 39 | A further wave of activity occurs after the interviews have taken place , and then things should tail off as offers are made to a few selected individuals . |
| 40 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 41 | They 're tempted by a few hundred pounds to go to places such as Amsterdam where cheap and plentiful crugs can be bought and brought back to Britain . |
| 42 | If you 're planning on a few intimate moments then why not try new Santes anti-perspirant deodorants . |
| 43 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 44 | Wooden cocktail sticks and skewers are used in a few of the cakes in this book for propping up , for securing and also for decorative items such as flagpoles . |
| 45 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 46 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 47 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 48 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 49 | The trillions of dollars in the bond markets have been jostled by a few judiciously placed millions in gold . |
| 50 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 51 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 52 | The owner has been calling by every few days to check on progress , but now is in Barbados . |
| 53 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 54 | These are approximations in which the very large number of particles are replaced by a few quantities . |
| 55 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 56 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 57 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 58 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
| 59 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 60 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |