Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 2 | After receiving cases of whisky and champagne for being both top trainer at Hamilton and provider of most runners at the track this year , Berry said : ‘ I 've only a few left to run at Edinburgh on Thursday and Doncaster this weekend , but I could have half a dozen for the all-weather courses . |
| 3 | I have only a few weeks to live . ’ |
| 4 | I have only a few doses of the drug left . |
| 5 | I know that I have only a few hours left to live , but I can feel my loved ones near me , and I welcome death . |
| 6 | No , I will not ; I have only a few minutes left . |
| 7 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
| 8 | I have quite a few more interviews to do . ’ |
| 9 | I have quite a few exciting things to tell you about this year 's season . |
| 10 | A few things remained in the bureau drawer ; the odds and ends that accumulate in drawers : an engagement diary for 1981 which had only a few entries ; an old wallet , empty except for an out-of-date RAC membership card . |
| 11 | So do you have quite a few famous connections round here ? |
| 12 | She had quite a few gadgets . |
| 13 | I have a niece who erm she had quite a few , she 's won several times . |
| 14 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 15 | It was my good fortune to see a lot of Emily Carr and to be counted as a friend , for she claimed she had only a few . |
| 16 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 17 | You had quite a few . |
| 18 | If you have just a few bushes , drape individual plants with nets , burying or pegging down the edges during vulnerable periods . |
| 19 | If you have just a few mulberries , not enough to make a pudding or an ice , arrange them in a little pyramid , if possible on shiny green leaves , on a plain glass compote dish , with a separate bowl of sugar . |
| 20 | , and in the machine or something , I had you know , I never know , you have quite a few words which are n't any French or . |
| 21 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 22 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 23 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 24 | It may be all very well when you have a goal in sight and you have only a few weeks to get through . |
| 25 | And we 've quite a few bits and bobs of furnishing that your mother might find useful . |
| 26 | And we 're booked up to go and see Cats in January , oh we 've quite a few and then like , there actually spooling 's quite good at organizing for er charity . |
| 27 | Uncle was always wanting to have that tail cut shorter and we had quite a few battles about it , but I won and Prince kept his long tail . |
| 28 | Well I just find these , I mean we had quite a few now |
| 29 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
| 30 | We have quite a few in stock and would like to clear a few at least ! |