Example sentences of "have [adv] a vague idea " in BNC.

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1 I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it .
2 We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed .
3 But since he had only a vague idea about the length of the Tarvaras day , he could only guess from the position of the sun and the length of the shadows that it was mid to late afternoon .
4 Sidney was puzzled by Wycliffe 's new line of questioning , and Wycliffe himself had only a vague idea of what he was after .
5 Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ .
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