Example sentences of "it [be] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick . |
| 2 | ‘ Just go down the plaza here , turn right into the old section of the building , and it 's a few doors down on the right . |
| 3 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
| 4 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 5 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , well it 's a few people . |
| 7 | It 's a few Xs in there and there . |
| 8 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
| 9 | I think it I think it 's a few months to go yet . |
| 10 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 12 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 13 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 14 | Yeah but it 's a few weeks yet though . |
| 15 | Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use . |
| 16 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 17 | But it is a few rich people who are responsible for this , not the growing numbers of the poor . |
| 18 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |
| 19 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 20 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 21 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 22 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 23 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 24 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
| 25 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 27 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 28 | He was hanging upside down , and he was so soaked in blood that it was a few more seconds before I discovered the severed artery was somewhere in his left leg . |
| 29 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 30 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |