Example sentences of "was [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 32 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 33 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 34 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 35 | One of my father 's laboratories was only a few miles distant . |
| 36 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 37 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 38 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 39 | It was only a few seconds later , just as she was finishing an easy row of plain knitting , that she heard the tinkle of Faye 's bell , a clamorous , urgent sound that cut across the dreamy mood of the October afternoon . |
| 40 | Kevin Williams of Hereford … was only a few seconds behind him |
| 41 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 42 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 43 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 44 | We used to have to catch the bus every morning and go to Chingford to school until Mark Hall was built and , erm and there was only one part of Mark Hall school built when we went there , there was only a few classrooms and er , it 's all grew up , the school grew up around us you know it 's a bit |
| 45 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 46 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 47 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 48 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 49 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 50 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |
| 51 | home but it was only a few yards anyway from . |
| 52 | The dragon , carrying the weight of two men , was only a few yards above the grass . |
| 53 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 54 | It was bad enough that the anniversary of my David 's death was only a few days away . |
| 55 | It was only a few steps , but now she was leaning on his arm for steadiness rather than support . |
| 56 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
| 57 | It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee . |
| 58 | Christmas was only a few months away , after all , and then he 'd be back . |
| 59 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
| 60 | 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 . |