Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ?
2	We 'd only had a few dates .
3	Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe .
4	‘ And we 'd only had a few months of marriage . ’
5	Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry .
6	We 'd all had a few drinks .
7	but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon
8	He 's already had a few chances , but his time will come … bank on it . ’
9	Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack .
10	I 've just had a few drinks .
11	It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 .
12	A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter .
13	A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents .
14	‘ But the horse has certainly had a few adventures in the meantime .

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