Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |
| 2 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 3 | As the south coast had been raided only a few years earlier , this action is understandable , and it also indicates a measure of political awareness among the peasant class . |
| 4 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 6 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 7 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 8 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 10 | He 's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place . |
| 11 | Now I know she lives in the Nottingham area now although she 's been widowed quite a few years . |