Example sentences of "be [art] few [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Been a few year they 've been , been about , must have been er erm twenty or thirty year now .
2 But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems .
3 Recently both monthly and weekly paid staff have switched to Videpay ( the new payroll system ) and like all new systems there have been a few teething problems .
4 Below are a few haiku written by students in a writing class .
5 There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger .
6 Perhaps there are a few rope knots , I do n't know . ’
7 There are a few trilobite species , however , with enormous , globular eyes ( see below ) .
8 Raffle prizes went to , , and and there are a few Christmas Cards and boxes of crackers left if anyone would like to buy them !
9 because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er
10 There are a few pregnancy marks on my stomach , round the navel , but my legs are long and unveined .
11 There are a few District Health Authorities who are already grasping the nettle and beginning to work closely with their local authority colleagues to ensure the implementation of the community care proposals , but close joint working is very patchy across the country .
12 There are a few merchant facilities licensed to take dangerous organic wastes , which are nonetheless not the worst-case highly chlorinated wastes ( one of these is the Leigh plant at Killamarsh near Sheffield ) .
13 Not in any way connected but of no less interest and speculation are a few cup stones .
14 Even though there are a few language problems .
15 Nevertheless , it 's a big move for a young girl and no doubt there will be a few family tears at the airport come June 21st .
16 It was not going to be a few bridge rolls and the odd glass of lemonade .
17 So there 's gon na be a few timetable rearrangements .
18 I suspect this will prove popular , and there are likely to be a few copycat launches . ’
19 There were a few lorry trailers parked there , a high wire fence along one side , nothing more .
20 He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots .
21 Each year there were a few sex crime trials which got particularly extensive publicity .
22 There 's a few architecture students with expensive drawing boards and such so there must be thousands of pounds damage inside .
23 Because there 's a few sort of non-local calls I could make to get
24 There 's a few sort of erm bits about it that he 's obviously changed or
25 So you say it was a few railway men that got together and
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