Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 2 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 3 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 4 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 5 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 6 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 7 | Now I know she lives in the Nottingham area now although she 's been widowed quite a few years . |
| 8 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |