Example sentences of "there were [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the meteorite landed there were big problems in Kershaw , just like there were again a few years ago . |
| 2 | Since Borssele was merrily buzzing away at 95 per cent of her maximum output there were doubtless a few sweaty palms in the control room at that moment . |
| 3 | During the Suez fiasco in 1956 Eden considered an identical idea , and there were even a few voices suggesting something similar during the Falklands War in 1982 . |
| 4 | Lady Street was busy : there were even a few visitors about , weaving between the parked vans and lorries . |
| 5 | There were also a few devout Muslims . |
| 6 | He was not the only one responsible for his own downfall , and there were also a few who got away with it . |
| 7 | Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood . |
| 8 | But there were also a few marked differences . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a couple of injuries from this game but there were also a few bruised egos and broken hearts . |
| 10 | Most of them were named after mythological characters , though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar . |
| 11 | In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles , including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab . |
| 12 | They helped dig the badgers ' new home … there were also a few young recruits on hand to help with the spadework . |
| 13 | At first there were just a few ‘ pops ’ , perhaps from pistols , then other weapons joined in , from the familiar rattle of Kalashnikovs to heavier machine-guns . |
| 14 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
| 15 | To offset this , there were usually a few well-known local characters hanging about , anticipating their presence being required . |
| 16 | As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style . |
| 17 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 18 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 19 | mountains and there were always a few |
| 20 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 21 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 22 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 23 | There were quite a few Asian kids at the school but very few blacks — particularly few when you consider how black West London is . |
| 24 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs X- — ( a teacher ) used to like Indian food and there were quite a few Indian girls in the class , so in two or three lessons in the cookery class they made Indian food . |
| 26 | Such a pulsating close battle required firmer handling than administered by Brian Wallis , for there were quite a few personal grudges raging . |
| 27 | There were quite a few cars ranked in the drive . |
| 28 | ‘ From accounts there were quite a few last night . |
| 29 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 30 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |