Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] a few " in BNC.

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1 It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier .
2 If only it had come a few years earlier .
3 It had sold a few thousand copies in the years before the 1976 court case : within three weeks of its acquittal 600,000 copies were purchased by an avid public .
4 It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life .
5 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
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