Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a few [noun pl] " 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 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 30 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |