Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 3 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 4 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 5 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 6 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 7 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 8 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 9 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 10 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 11 | However , abnormal neurological signs ( notably unusually brisk tendon reflexes and tremor ) are common in older subjects , and overt neurological deterioration has been reported in a few early treated young adults . |
| 12 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 13 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 14 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 15 | Token bets had been made by a few on the opposing Southern team , so Rex was able to ‘ collect ’ from long time colleagues as well as being presented with a cheque b Mr Ellis . |
| 16 | With apologies to Winston Churchill I venture to mis-quote : ‘ Never has so much rubbish been written by a few , against so many . ’ |
| 17 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 18 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 19 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 20 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 21 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 22 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 23 | The trillions of dollars in the bond markets have been jostled by a few judiciously placed millions in gold . |
| 24 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 25 | Elephant and large antelope bones have been found at a few African hominid sites , dated at nearly two million years . |
| 26 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
| 27 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 28 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 29 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |