Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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1 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
2 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
3 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
4 | He has converted quite a few to Utopianism . |
5 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
6 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
7 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
8 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
9 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
10 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
11 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
12 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
13 | ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’ |
14 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
15 | The Supreme Court having removed quite a few familiar landmarks without issuing much in the way of fresh navigational guidance , the courts faced some difficulties in addressing the issue of the Convention 's applicability . |
16 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
17 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
18 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
19 | And that was and that was something that was achieved , ha having lived there a few years , you think |
20 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
21 | ‘ This man Riddle must have had a taste for nuts and raisins ; he seems to have eaten quite a few within a couple of hours before his death . ’ |
22 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
23 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
24 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
25 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
26 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
27 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
28 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |
29 | I 've done quite a few ads , the latest Marmite ad is mine and now I 've got the part in Brookside which is great , I 'm really enjoying it . |
30 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |