Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 2 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 3 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 4 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 7 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 8 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 9 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 10 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 11 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 12 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 13 | There had been quite a few successful ones , however . |
| 14 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 15 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 16 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |
| 17 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 19 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 20 | Well no , er I 've been there a few times . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 22 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 23 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 24 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 25 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 26 | Moving further north , the United States has rather fewer volcanoes , and although there are some impressive cones such as those of Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier , both over 4,000 metres high , there have been only a few minor eruptions in historic times . |
| 27 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 28 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 29 | ‘ There have been quite a few calls from readers … |
| 30 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |