Example sentences of "have only a vague " in BNC.

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1 At least the first time , she 'd only a vague notion of what might lie ahead .
2 He 'd only a vague notion of what was going to happen after this .
3 I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it .
4 We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed .
5 A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her .
6 But since he had only a vague idea about the length of the Tarvaras day , he could only guess from the position of the sun and the length of the shadows that it was mid to late afternoon .
7 Sidney was puzzled by Wycliffe 's new line of questioning , and Wycliffe himself had only a vague idea of what he was after .
8 Surprisingly , astronomers have only a vague idea of how big the Universe really is because of uncertainties in their ‘ cosmological distance scale ’ .
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