Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.

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1 I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five .
2 She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment .
3 The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like .
4 Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course .
5 ‘ But I genuinely feel that my feelings towards the FA have stopped a bit of progress for my son .
6 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
7 The year has started a bit stronger , so we 're hoping that with the end of the VAT threat for the meanwhile and after two lean years , this will continue . ’
8 The company has shrunk a bit since the move , ’ says Phil Longden , 33 , an applications programmer with the company since 1986 .
9 Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but
10 The series has become a bit of a cult in the UK , with Victor becoming much better known than the actor who plays him , Richard Wilson .
11 Well I , I think after this er people have n't appreciated yet that they 've , the grounds have become a bit safer than they were the hooligan element seemed to be taking over , they have er closed circuit television now , at Walsall , so they can get to the hot spot of any trouble and er they erm the ground
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