Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 2 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 3 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 4 | By contrast , some of the smallest features seen have lasted for only a few hours . |
| 5 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 6 | I 've spoken to quite a few small businessmen who have been affected in the same way . |
| 7 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 8 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 9 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 10 | Like everyone else even remotely connected with the Hochhauser Season ( and over the years she had listened to quite a few of Uncle Willi 's stories ) she had accepted the image of Gesner the seducer , the monster of conceit , the arrogant and selfish star of the company . |
| 11 | Is she regis she 's registered with quite a few agencies has n't she ? |
| 12 | In miles per second that 's not so easy , but humans have travelled at perhaps a few tens of miles per second in a spacecraft . |
| 13 | I have looked at quite a few , but there have not been any which have struck me as being ‘ the one ’ . |
| 14 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 15 | If 1 have concentrated on just a few of these predictions this is , in part , because several of those neglected are not unique to the conditioned attention theory and are readily accommodated by its rivals . |