Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 2 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 3 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 4 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 5 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 6 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 7 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 8 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |
| 9 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 10 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 11 | Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days . |
| 12 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 13 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 14 | This list has , believe it or not , really got me in the mood for venturing back to see United — tommorrow should see me travelling up the M1 if I can get the transport arranged — and hopefully I 'll be seeing quite a few games throughout the season . |
| 15 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 16 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 17 | But you 'll be finding quite a few of the Scots in here tonight . ’ |
| 18 | Doors normally open half an hour before a concert or performance of a play but , when there are two evening performances , spectators may be admitted only a few minutes before the second performance . |
| 19 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 20 | ‘ If there were Business Olympics , Britain would be winning quite a few gold medals . ’ |
| 21 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 23 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 24 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 25 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 26 | The case is being heard just a few days before counter action aimed at holding up attempts to sell the house if they are forced to leave . |
| 27 | Fourthly , the field workers were given only a few packets of ORS for distribution among the villagers . |
| 28 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |
| 29 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 30 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |