Example sentences of "it [be] a few [noun] " 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 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Yes , well it 's a few people . |
| 6 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 7 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 8 | Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I think it I think it 's a few months to go yet . |
| 11 | Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |
| 14 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 15 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 16 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 17 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 18 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 23 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 24 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 25 | Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago . |
| 26 | So you say it was a few railway men that got together and |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |