Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 2 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 3 | Mr Ueberroth may have spoken a bit too bluntly for his own good — and was not known for his sensitivity in dealing with the urban poor . |
| 4 | But it was solid silver — and the inscription must have cost a bit as well . |
| 5 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 6 | Conservative MPs found it delicious , though more refined palates will have gagged a bit at Mr Gummer 's insistence on always over-salting the self-righteousness . |
| 7 | The year may have started a bit show but it finished with a flourish and we have achieved a tremendous recovery along the way . |
| 8 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 9 | Items that would previously have been classified as extraordinary will still be disclosed , but the reader will have to do a bit of work to find them . |