Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 2 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 3 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 4 | However , abnormal neurological signs ( notably unusually brisk tendon reflexes and tremor ) are common in older subjects , and overt neurological deterioration has been reported in a few early treated young adults . |
| 5 | However , the work has been put off a few weeks , so there 'll be plenty of room . |
| 6 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 7 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 8 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 9 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 10 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 11 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 12 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 13 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 14 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 15 | Token bets had been made by a few on the opposing Southern team , so Rex was able to ‘ collect ’ from long time colleagues as well as being presented with a cheque b Mr Ellis . |
| 16 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 17 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 18 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 19 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 20 | The trillions of dollars in the bond markets have been jostled by a few judiciously placed millions in gold . |
| 21 | Elephant and large antelope bones have been found at a few African hominid sites , dated at nearly two million years . |
| 22 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
| 23 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 24 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 25 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 26 | But it means a lifetime of problems have been cured in a few minutes . |
| 27 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 28 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 29 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |