Example sentences of "there a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 2 | She left us there a few minutes , then , coming to the door , beckoned me to the next room . |
| 3 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 4 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 5 | The joys — and the financial rewards — of the instant game had not reached the West Indies when Denness led his troops there a few months later and , as the two sides were drawn in separate groups in the 1975 World Cup , it was 1976 before they met again . |
| 6 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 7 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 8 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 9 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 10 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 11 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
| 12 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 13 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |
| 14 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 15 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 16 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 17 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
| 18 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
| 19 | But as he stood there a few seconds more , holding her eyes relentlessly , Maria was assailed by a sense of what her fate would be like if ever she was weak enough to succumb to the dark , dangerous attraction he held for her . |
| 20 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 21 | She moved soon after that to Thetford in your East Anglia and I was able to phone her there a few times . |
| 22 | A Mr Carey ( with his girlfriend ) began squatting there a few months later , and offered to pay rent which amounted to an acknowledgement of title , but this was refused . |
| 23 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 24 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 25 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 26 | People would , you know , I mean it I mean that other lass was only there six weeks , Teresa 's only been there a few weeks . |
| 27 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 28 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 29 | up there a few times with . |