Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
2 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
3 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
4 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
5 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
6 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
7 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |