Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had over a thousand letters of congratulation . |
| 2 | The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs . |
| 3 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 4 | She had quite a few gadgets . |
| 5 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 6 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
| 7 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |
| 8 | But er , they had quite a few computers there , and I said to Ray find out how much the computers are . |
| 9 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 10 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 11 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 12 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 13 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |