Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century .
2 Given the party 's pledges on pensions , defence , law and order , and other statutory commitments , particularly on social security , this meant that spending cuts would have to fall in a few areas , notably housing .
3 But often we would n't get that straight away ; we 'd have to go through a few guitars before we found the combination of guitar and amp and EQ on the desk .
4 Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite .
5 He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo …
6 His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before .
7 We may have to look at a few options but there are not many .
8 Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty .
9 Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions .
10 They could easily have waited for a few days . ’
11 The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead .
12 The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided .
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