Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 4 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I think Chris and Tina were freaked by the experience and have gone home with a few grey hairs . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |