Example sentences of "[been] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 2 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 3 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 4 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 5 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 6 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 7 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 8 | ‘ They had only been together a few weeks , ’ said Charlotte 's father , nightclub owner Henry Turtle , 47 . |
| 9 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 10 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 11 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 12 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's been here a few times . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 15 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Girl has not been here a few nights . |
| 17 | You 've only been here a few days . |
| 18 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 19 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 20 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 21 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 22 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 23 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
| 24 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 25 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 26 | People would , you know , I mean it I mean that other lass was only there six weeks , Teresa 's only been there a few weeks . |
| 27 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 28 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 29 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 30 | There have been quite a few . |