Example sentences of "it [be] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for .
2 When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work .
3 Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do
4 He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’
5 He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’
6 Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use .
7 ‘ Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right .
8 I think it I think it 's a few months to go yet .
9 Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though .
10 If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk .
11 I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P
12 It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on .
13 To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago .
14 It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree .
15 Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present .
16 ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’
17 Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her .
18 It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him .
19 It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost .
20 It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college .
21 So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago .
22 But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday .
23 Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago .
24 His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure .
25 The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago .
26 ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression .
27 It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case .
28 With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment .
29 So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot .
30 It was a few years back .
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