Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [pron] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
| 2 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 3 | ‘ For a few minutes our hearts were in our mouths . |
| 4 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 5 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 6 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 7 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
| 8 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 9 | For the first few weeks their existence was bedraggled and formless . |
| 10 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 11 | He is one of the few writers whose books are read and loved by people in the East and the West . |
| 12 | There were a few couples whose friendship was of long standing and who were always seen about together . |
| 13 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |