Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 2 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 3 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 4 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 5 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 6 | Even Maisie , who was now standing a few yards from the window , breathing heavily , seemed to have been paralysed by the sight of him . |
| 7 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 8 | The best plan was therefore to study a few typical ones : T. H. Huxley 's course on the crayfish at South Kensington in the 1870s was based on this principle , close study of a crayfish preparing one for any invertebrate . |
| 9 | He was subsequently given a few walk-on parts . |