Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] a few [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 6 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 7 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 8 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 11 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 12 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 13 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 20 | However , the work has been put off a few weeks , so there 'll be plenty of room . |
| 21 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 22 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 25 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 26 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |