Example sentences of "be [vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 2 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 3 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 4 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 5 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 6 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 7 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 8 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 9 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 10 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 11 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 12 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 13 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 14 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 15 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 16 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 17 | In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 19 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 20 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 21 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 22 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 23 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 24 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 25 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 26 | In a truly decentralised system , subsidiary organisations could reasonably be given a few well-defined priorities to which assessments of corporate and individual performance would be related . |
| 27 | Brown and his team should be given a few days ’ extension to accomplish that . |
| 28 | This information is relevant to plans for local advertising , leaflet distribution , and for determining the potential for opening another branch to be sited a few kilometres away . |
| 29 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 30 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |