Example sentences of "he be [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 2 | Although he is now a few months past the usual retirement age of 65 , Mr Sulzberger has not disclosed when he will go . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's just a few minutes early for the unveiling of the new me . |
| 4 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
| 5 | When he was just a few weeks old , he was stolen from his mother and carried through the bush to the side of a main road . |
| 6 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 7 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 8 | He was only a few minutes late having been caught in traffic on a motorway . |
| 9 | Dr Enevoldson said the more records of blood and bone marrow types she has , the more chance of helping patients like the England and Spurs striker 's baby son , who was taken ill with a form of leukaemia when he was only a few months old . |
| 10 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |