Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 2 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 3 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 4 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 5 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 6 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 7 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 8 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 9 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 10 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 11 | He championed the ‘ flap ’ technique , which had recently been revived by a few English surgeons . |