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

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1 Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition .
2 Occasionally some specimens do not have such a dense covering of spinelets and the interradial areas have only a few scattered spinelets with a greater number on the radial shields .
3 Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages .
4 Today most ports have only a few fishing boats but large fleets still work from three of the ports .
5 In your garden display , fireworks have just a few grams of explosive in them .
6 She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’
7 A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses .
8 The colonies vary widely in shape : some are shrub-like , with numerous slender branches , others have only a few , or even a single branch .
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