Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know down at Evans I 've noticed quite a few things in there , there are different |
| 32 | Met quite a few people and she uses the town centre for erm she thinks the , they could improve on the mobiles . |
| 33 | she thinks college is alright and she 's met quite a few people and she likes loads of . |
| 34 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |
| 36 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 37 | I 've done quite a few ads , the latest Marmite ad is mine and now I 've got the part in Brookside which is great , I 'm really enjoying it . |
| 38 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |
| 39 | Well the thing is after a while when you 've done quite a few it comes it comes fairly easy , and you can do it in your head . |
| 40 | I 'm not sure and erm course they 're you know , struggling to do the mortgage but it it 's good because he you know , he 's done quite a few jobs for us |
| 41 | I mean , it was just the words they were using , I mean oh It makes you cringe , oh and then that er girl oh she 's done quite a few things recently . |
| 42 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 43 | ‘ I have seen quite a few races on television and the competition is really good . ’ |
| 44 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 45 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 46 | Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds . |
| 47 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 48 | you 've missed quite a few have n't you ? |
| 49 | Selling shares for gain should not be confused with giving part of your family business to the next generation , which was made easier a few years back under the inheritance tax rules . |
| 50 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 51 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 52 | This idea was developed further a few months later in the ‘ Marshall Plan ’ , a highly significant US commitment to European affairs . |
| 53 | The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ . |
| 54 | Birse & Robertson ( 1970 ) have classified only a few long , deep valleys of the Western Isles as ‘ moderately exposed ’ , with average wind speeds below 8.5 knots ( 4.4m/s ) . |
| 55 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 56 | ‘ We have slept together a few times , ’ she said , ‘ but we 've never done it during school hours . |
| 57 | Henry had died only a few weeks before William and this , so far as Tancred was concerned , meant that the arrangement was void . |
| 58 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 59 | With LASMO producing around 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent every day of the year , our current revenues for the year are certainly lower than those anticipated just a few years ago . |
| 60 | Outcome in early treated subjects with phenylketonuria is not as good as was thought just a few years ago and is much more closely associated with the quality of blood phenylalanine control at all ages than previously recognised . |