Example sentences of "be [prep] a few " in BNC.

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1 Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’
2 what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now
3 Has n't been for a few years .
4 ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms .
5 Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all .
6 The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk .
7 Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole .
8 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
9 It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’
10 ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since .
11 He 's been in a few things .
12 What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training .
13 Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt .
14 You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association .
15 If anyone is offering decent odds it could be worth a few quid
16 ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’
17 Well I mean that 'll that might be worth a few marks .
18 If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight .
19 It would only be for a few days , of course .
20 To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being .
21 Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis .
22 Until Tyson gets out of jail , which King is convinced will be within a few months , the promoter is shrewdly banking his hopes for big money on Chavez , the unbeaten WBC super-lightweight champion who is often referred to as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world .
23 ‘ Well , Father 's promised to buy me a small practice when I 'm qualified , which will be in a few months .
24 It gave me a great deal of pleasure to think how much more pained he was going to be in a few moments .
25 Anyway , all these books are mine , and so is the whole house , or will be in a few years ’ time .
26 If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations .
27 We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK .
28 And you know we 've been to a few caravans
29 He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip .
30 It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems .
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