Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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1 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
2 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
3 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
4 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
5 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |
6 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |