Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 2 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 3 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 4 | For a few moments there was little apparent reaction . |
| 5 | For a few moments there was a general discussion then Tony turned to Sarah . |
| 6 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 7 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 8 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 9 | For a few moments she was laughing so much she could n't speak . |
| 10 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 11 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 12 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 13 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 14 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 15 | The England team had a few players who were later to play first-class cricket , and were brought together by one W.S. Donne , who , if he did n't enjoy great success on the Olympic playing field , achieved eminence in Rugby Union , elected president of the RFU in 1923–24 . |
| 16 | The Prince also demanded a few officers who were experienced in battle and who would exemplify his own ideas of how wars should be fought . |
| 17 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 18 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 19 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 20 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 21 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 22 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 23 | However , in a few cases there were serious disputes in families over questions of inheritance , apparently always followed by very cool relationships between the parties , or ceasing contact altogether . |
| 24 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 25 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 26 | There were a few females who were hostile , but most liked her . |
| 27 | After a few minutes we were shaking hands . |
| 28 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 29 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 30 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |