Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 3 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 4 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 5 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 6 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 7 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 8 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 9 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 10 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 11 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 14 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 15 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 18 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 19 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 20 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 21 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 22 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 23 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
| 28 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 29 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 30 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |