Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] a few " in BNC.

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1 To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent .
2 They could easily have waited for a few days . ’
3 Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions .
4 His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before .
5 Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite .
6 He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo …
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