Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore .
2 The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop .
3 I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since .
4 Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital .
5 Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ?
6 But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not
7 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
8 Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked .
9 ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly .
10 Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days .
11 But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test .
12 A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later .
13 You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice .
14 The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ .
15 ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’
16 Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago .
17 I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed .
18 Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode .
19 Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers .
20 And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think
21 She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed .
22 To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result .
23 ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’
24 The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt .
25 I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it .
26 The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs .
27 But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk .
28 They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush .
29 Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out .
30 She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together .
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