Example sentences of "was [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left the Tube at Chalk Farm and walked — it was only a few hundred yards . |
| 2 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 3 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 4 | The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago . |
| 5 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 6 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 7 | In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines . |
| 8 | Her flat was only a few minutes ' walk away from the station . |
| 9 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 10 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 11 | It was only a few minutes ' walk to her office in Aldersgate Street ; but she normally did not arrive there till nine . |
| 12 | It was only a few minutes . |
| 13 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
| 14 | It was hard to believe that the place he was now visiting was only a few miles from the squalor of the area round the lodging house . |
| 15 | She was only a few yards away . |
| 16 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 17 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 18 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
| 19 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 20 | The extreme ultraviolet power was only a few watts , but it was adequate to detect molecular hydrogen . |
| 21 | Although I was only a few miles away over the river , I missed the London I was getting to know and played games with myself like : if the secret police ordered you to live in the suburbs for the rest of your life , what would you do ? |
| 22 | It was only a few seconds before he hit a cul de sac and jumped out . |
| 23 | It was bad enough that the anniversary of my David 's death was only a few days away . |
| 24 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 25 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 26 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 27 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 28 | It was only a few yards to the water . |
| 29 | That was only a few short days ago but now seemed light years away . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I was only a few yards away when the car came round the bend and hit the kerb . |