Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
| 2 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 3 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 4 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 5 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 6 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 7 | Hackney-born Ehiogu , who has won seven Under-21 caps , has been one of the few successes in a disappointing England side this season . |
| 8 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 9 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 10 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 11 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
| 12 | ( The General Register Office in Edinburgh has been aware of the few errors in the Scottish data ) . |
| 13 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 14 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |