Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 2 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 3 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 4 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |
| 5 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 7 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 8 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 10 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 11 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 12 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 13 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 14 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 15 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 16 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 17 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 18 | ‘ I think Chris and Tina were freaked by the experience and have gone home with a few grey hairs . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |