Example sentences of "were [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first row of the audience were literally a few feet from my feet . |
| 2 | Such were only a few of the multitude of his accomplishments . |
| 3 | Fred Klepner had been in and out of both Mark 's and Pat Muldoon 's offices , which were only a few yards apart , like an eager beaver . |
| 4 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 5 | There were only a few old women in the office . |
| 6 | He was afraid ; there were only a few people left where he was and not much food . |
| 7 | Moving was no problem , as the houses were only a few streets apart . |
| 8 | Profits were good but , as usual , the Westons were only a few precarious steps in front of the authorities . |
| 9 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 10 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 11 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 12 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 13 | One by one they had slipped out until now there were only a few still clinging to the broomstick . |
| 14 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 15 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |
| 16 | Glaciers or vast sheets of ice were moving slowly across the lowlands , just 20 000 years ago , at a time when there were only a few primitive humans living in caves in southern Britain . |
| 17 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 18 | Apart from that possibility and the final pension , there were only a few other possibilities of organizational reward . |
| 19 | There were only a few Poles in the city and they all spoke German . |
| 20 | The worm-eaten stairs were only a few paces from the open door but she did n't give them a thought . |
| 21 | Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw . |
| 22 | It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching . |
| 23 | Condensation was also not a problem — even on the wettest of days there were only a few tell tale signs on the flysheet . |
| 24 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 25 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 26 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 27 | The field interviews with users reveal that , before the current outbreak , there were only a few isolated ‘ pockets ’ of opioid users in Wirral . |
| 28 | These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character . |
| 29 | There were only a few guests — among them Martin Browne and his wife , Rupert Hart-Davis and Jacob Epstein ( whom Eliot had come to like and admire when he was sitting to him ) . |
| 30 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |