Example sentences of "have [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 2 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 3 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 4 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 5 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 6 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 7 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 8 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
| 9 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
| 12 | We have had quite a few trainees , youth trainees in garden centres , and golf courses , which surprised me , but golf courses apparently could use quite a lot of people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 15 | And I think she intends on having quite a few drinks . |
| 16 | So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ? |
| 17 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 18 | A warning was given but residents had only a few minutes to get out before the blast rocked their houses . |
| 19 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 20 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 21 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
| 22 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 23 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 24 | He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road . |
| 25 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
| 26 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 27 | A few things remained in the bureau drawer ; the odds and ends that accumulate in drawers : an engagement diary for 1981 which had only a few entries ; an old wallet , empty except for an out-of-date RAC membership card . |
| 28 | She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’ |
| 29 | And we 've quite a few bits and bobs of furnishing that your mother might find useful . |
| 30 | She also had quite a few things two small Picassos and a picture by Robert Delaunay called ‘ The window ’ that Taírov was given when they were in Paris on tour together , and a very fine Yakulov . |