Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [verb] a few " in BNC.

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1 The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown .
2 However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct .
3 And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think .
4 The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag .
5 The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men .
6 Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist .
7 A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye .
8 But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic .
9 ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’
10 The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart .
11 Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today .
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