Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 2 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 4 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 5 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |