Example sentences of "be [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 2 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 3 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 4 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 5 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 6 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
| 7 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 9 | He 's been in a few things . |
| 10 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 11 | It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 13 | Well I mean that 'll that might be worth a few marks . |
| 14 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 15 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 16 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 17 | Until Tyson gets out of jail , which King is convinced will be within a few months , the promoter is shrewdly banking his hopes for big money on Chavez , the unbeaten WBC super-lightweight champion who is often referred to as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world . |
| 18 | It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments . |
| 19 | Anyway , all these books are mine , and so is the whole house , or will be in a few years ’ time . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Father 's promised to buy me a small practice when I 'm qualified , which will be in a few months . |
| 21 | If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations . |
| 22 | And you know we 've been to a few caravans |
| 23 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 24 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |
| 25 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 26 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 27 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 28 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 29 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 30 | It 's worth a few days observation . ’ |