Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 2 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 3 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 4 | ‘ The year has started a bit stronger , so we 're hoping that with the end of the VAT threat for the meanwhile and after two lean years , this will continue . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The company has shrunk a bit since the move , ’ says Phil Longden , 33 , an applications programmer with the company since 1986 . |