Example sentences of "have [be] a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 2 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 3 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 4 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 5 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 6 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 7 | The only furniture we had was a few tables and chairs . ’ |